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NEW OHIO PENITENTIARY 


DESCRIPTION OF 
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Description of Preliminary Drawings 


JAMES M. COX, Governor 


*J. A. LEONARD 
W. A. GREENLUND 
A. F. SHEPHERD 
Harris R. CooLey 


Ohio Penitentiary Commission 


**SAMUEL J. BLACK, 
*** ROBERT T. CREW, 


Secretary to the Commission 


RICHARDS, McCARTY & BULFORD 
Architects 
*Died August 11, 1918 


**Served August 20, 1913 to June 15, 1918 
***Served July 16, 1918 to August 27, 1918 


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FOREWORD 


HE painstaking and untiring effort of Dr. James A. Leonard, 

whose period of service on this Commission extended from the 

date of his appointment August 20, 1913, until his resignation 
during the last days of his illness July 16, 1918, has proven conclu- 
isvely that his appointment as Chairman of the Ohio Penitentiary 
Commission was most fortunate. He brought to the service of the 
State in this matter a trained mind with a broad and charitable vision. 
His interest in those in prison grew out of his faith and confidence 
in his fellow men, and his desire to help those who had gone astray 
was the constant and continuous purpose of his mature years. His 
trust in men was so marked and genuine that few prisoners placed 
on their honor by him ever betrayed his confidence. 

Supplementing these fundamental qualities of mind and heart 
he brought to the Commission a rich practical experience growing 
out of his work as Superintendent of the State Reformatory at 
Mansfield, a position which he occupied for a period of seventeen 
years. In addition to these elements of character and knowledge his 
genial, gentle ways, his hopeful attitude towards life and his keen 
sense of humor made sessions of the Gommission a delightful com- 
panionship as well as a means of service. 

For his wisdom and judgment, for his kindness of heart, for his 
unfailing courtesy and for his genial companionship the members of 
the Ohio Penitentiary Commission desire to express their sincere 
appreciation. 


Five 


APPROVAL AND CERTIFICATION 


ECTION 12 of the Act creating the Ohio Penitentiary Com- 
mission (O. L. 108 P. 249) reads as follows: “Before any 
ground plan or plans for the erection of the new penitentiary, 

the building or group of buildings constituting parts or units of the 
same, are finally approved and adopted by the Commission, such 
plans are to be exhibited in the State House for not less than fifteen 
(15) days, and any criticism of the same shall be considered by such 
Commission in determining whether such plans shall be finally 
adopted.” 

The following description and the drawings accompanying the 
same constitute what the Commission hereby approves as fixing the 
permanent design for the new Ohio Penitentiary, it being understood 
that these drawings and descriptions are preliminary, and that the 
same are to be followed by complete working drawings and specifi- 
cations prior to the actual construction of improvements herein 
shown and described, and in approving these preliminary drawings 
it is hereby certified that the conditions of the statute above quoted 
have been complied with. 


Architects. 


Seven 


BIRDSEYE VIEW 


INTRODUCTION 


ULL information regarding the preliminary investigation 
KF leading up to the passage of the law creating the Ohio Peni- 

tentiary Commission can be obtained by reference to the report 
on Prison Reform made by the special commission consisting of Dr. 
J. A. Leonard, Rutherford H. Platt, Dr. A. F. Shepherd and Dr. 
Harris R. Cooley appointed by Governor James M. Cox; said report 
bearing date of February 17, 1913, published in the Ohio Bulletin 
of Charities and Corrections, and reprinted from this bulletin by 
the Ohio Board of State Charities, April, 1918, Columbus, Ohio. 
A copy of this bulletin can be seen in the office of the Ohio Board 
of State Charities, Columbus. 

Pursuant to the recommendations made in the above report, an 
act creating the Ohio Penitentiary Commission was passed by the 
General Assembly in 1918, and on August 20th of that year Gov- 
ernor Cox appointed the Penitentiary Commission. 

Thereupon the Commission, in accordance with its duties pre- 
scribed by law, began its work of considering the proposed sites for 
such an institution, and after an extensive investigation determined 
upon the purchase as the best site offered of the property herein after 
described. 

Since the purchase of the site known as the Penitentiary Farm, 
the Commission has devoted its efforts to the study of the require- 
ments of the proposed institution, and as soon as funds were available 
therefor, the Commission employed architects and engineers to 
develop studies and preliminary drawings and make definite recom- 
mendations as to the best method of improvement and development 
of said farm for penitentiary purposes. 

The drawings and descriptions here submitted are the summing 
up of a long and careful investigation by the Penitentiary Commis- 
sion and the architects looking well into the future as to the possible 
requirements of this institution with a full realization on the part 
of the Commission that the scheme as here approved cannot be 
changed or deviated from in the carrying on of the work under the 
present Statute of the State of Ohio, unless the approval of the 
Penitentiary Commission is first secured for any such changes as 
might be proposed. 


Nine 


It is realized by the Commission that an institution of this mag- 
nitude will require a period of several years for its complete con- 
struction and in this time many changes may occur in the personnel 
of the Penitentiary Commission, the Board of Administration, the 
architects and engineers intrusted with the work. For that reason 
the drawings and descriptions herewith submitted and approved set 
forth as accurately as is possible all of the contemplated improve- 
ments to the ultimate completion of the work to the end that the 
original thought in the minds of those who had given most time and 
study to the problems involved become a matter of permanent record. 

It is the purpose and intent of the Penitentiary Commission to 
proceed with the preparation of working drawings and specifications 
for the various units of improvement as rapidly as is possible and 
practicable in order to enable the Board of Administration to take 
up its work of construction at the earliest possible date. 


The drawings and descriptions herewith submitted are in accord- 
ance with the requirements of the contract between the Ohio Peni- 
tentiary Commission and the architects as follows, viz: “All of the 
drawings to be furnished for the improvements are to be sufficiently 
clear and accompanied by such legends and descriptions as will make 
of them an understandable and permanent record of the proposed 
units of improvements,” * * * “and all such documents taken 
together form such complete and permanent record of the proposed 
Ohio Penitentiary, its appointments and style and character of con- 
struction as will enable any competent architect or architects and 
engineer or engineers to take the work up from and at a point indi- 
cated and illustrated by the documents hereinbefore referred to and 
to prepare therefrom complete working drawings, details and speci- 
fications for any and all of the units of the proposed improvements 
in complete harmony with the entire scheme as originally contem- 
plated and approved.” 


It is realized that during the construction of this institution 
questions may frequently arise as to the line of reasoning that led 
to the conclusions herein set forth; therefore, at various points in 
this description it has been the intent to call attention to the problems 
under consideration, and methods of management and operation have 
been suggested in order to make clear to successors in the work the 
reason for the plan and arrangement herein recommended. 


Ten 


No. 
No. 


No. 
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No. 


LIST OF DRAWINGS 


HE following described drawings are filed in the office of the 

Auditor of State and form a part of this report. 

1—Map of territory surrounding the penitentiary farm. 

2—Map of present penitentiary farm and its recommended 
purchases. 

8—Map of farm in its present condition, showing contours of 
that portion of the farm of which topographical survey has 
been made. 

4—Map showing proposed building improvements in outline, 
roads, storm drainage, under-drainage, steam and electric 
railways and landscape work. 

4a Map of farm showing proposed building improvements in 
outline with future landscape development. 

5—Contour map. 

6—Contour map. 

7.—Contour map. 

8—Map showing buildings in outline, contours, storm sewer, 
sanitary sewer, finished grades and roads and railroads. 

9—Map showing profiles and plans of main sanitary sewer 
from the penitentiary to the village of London. 


. 10-——Map showing tunnels, water, steam and electric lines. 
. 11—Map showing buildings in detail, roadways and finished 


grades. 


. 12—Birdseye view of main building groups. 


ADMINISTRATION BuILDING DRAWINGS—THREE SHEETS 
18—First and second floor plans. 

14—Longitudinal section, and basement plan. 

15—F our elevations. 


CENTRAL GROUP DRAWINGS, CONSISTING OF LARGE CHAPEL AND AS- 


No. 
No. 
No. 
No. 
No. 


. SEMBLY HALL, MESS HALL AND KITCHEN—FIVE SHEETS 


16—Basement plan. 

17—Main floor plan. 

18—Balcony and roof plan. 

19—FE ast and south and west elevations. 
20—North elevation and three sections. 


Eleven 


No. 


No. 
No. 
No. 


No. 
No. 


No. 


No. 


UTILITY BUILDING DRAWINGS—-TWO SHEETS 


21—F our floor plans. 
22—-Four elevations and sections. 


SMALL CHAPEL DRAWINGS—ONE SHEET 
28—Three plans and three sections and four elevations. 


INTERIOR CELL BLOCK DRAWINGS—ONE SHEET 


. 24—-Two floor plans, three elevations and one section. 


elevations of corridors. 


EXTERIOR CELL BLOCK DRAWINGS—ONE SHEET 
25—Two plans, three elevations and one section. 


DORMITORY BUILDING DRAWINGS—ONE SHEET 
26—Three plans and three elevations. 


HOSPITAL BUILDING DRAWINGS—FOUR SHEETS 


27—Basement plan. 
28—First floor plan. 


. 29—Second floor plan. 


80—F our elevations. 


CONSERVATORY DRAWINGS—ONE SHEET 
31—One plan and four elevations. 


POWER HOUSE AND WATER TOWER DRAWINGS—FOUR SHEETS 


Two 


32—Basement plan, main floor plan, elevation and plan of 


water tower. 
83—Roof plan, section and section of water tower. 
84—North and east elevations. 
85—South and west elevations. 


MAINTENANCE BUILDING DRAWINGS—-TWO SHEETS 


36—Four plans. 
87—F our elevations. 


LARGE FACTORY BUILDING DRAWINGS—ONE SHEET 
88—Main floor plan and two elevations. 


SMALL FACTORY BUILDING DRAWINGS—ONE SHEET 
39—Main floor plan and two elevations. 


Twelve 


RAW PRODUCTS STORAGE BUILDING DRAWINGS—ONE SHEET 
No. 40—Floor plan and two elevations. 


FINISHED PRODUCTS STORAGE BUILDING DRAWINGS—ONE SHEET 
No. 41—Floor plan and two elevations. 


WALL, GATES AND INTERURBAN STATION DRAWINGS—ONE SHEET 
No. 42—Plans, sections and elevations. 


AGRICULTURAL BUILDINGS DRAWINGS—THREE SHEETS 


No. 43—Main floor plan of dairy barn. 

No. 44—Second floor plan of dairy barn. 

No. 45—Three elevations of dairy barn and two plans and two ele- 
vations and section of horse barn. 


WARDEN’S RESIDENCE DRAWINGS—TWO SHEETS 


No. 46—Four plans. 
No. 47—F our elevations. 


DEPUTY WARDEN’S RESIDENCE DRAWINGS—ONE SHEET 
No. 48—Three plans and four elevations. 


CHAPLAIN’S RESIDENCE DRAWINGS—ONE SHEET 
No. 49—Three plans and four elevations. 


Thirteen 


THE LOCATION 


HE land purchased by the Ohio Penitentiary Commission, 
known as the Prison Farm is situated one and one-half miles 
north-west of London in Madison County, Ohio, twenty-seven 

miles nearly due west of Columbus. It lies between the London and 
Somerford, and the London and Springfield Pikes, both main travel- 
ed highways of this section of the State. The London and Somer- 
ford Road connects with the National Pike at the Village of Somer- 
ford. The location of the site with relation to Columbus and London 
and to the main traveled roads, railroads and interurban line is shown 
by the plat herewith submitted and marked Location Map of Peni- 
tentiary Farm (No. 1). 


Fourteen 


PROPOSED PURCHASES 


HE present area of the Penitentiary Farm is 1,448.5 acres in 
one unit and the situation and surruondings are such that ex- 
tension is feasible in any direction without encountering land 

more valuable than well improved farm property. In the considera- 
tion that has been given to this site it has been found that it would be 
greatly to the advantage of the project to purchase certain additional 
and abutting properties; these recommended purchases being in- 
dicated on Plat No. 2 accompanying this description and being letter- 
ed in the order in which their purchase is recommended. 

The reasons for the purchase of additional property and extend- 
ing the farm area are three-fold and have been considered from the 
following standpoints. 

First; the question of real estate containing extensive deposits 
of sand and gravel that will be of great value to the construction and 
the improvement work, and real estate necessary for right of way for 
railroad track connections. 

Second; the purchase of such tracts of land as secure absolute 
and complete control of the waterway known as Oak Run. 

Third; the question of such farm areas as will round out and 
complete the State’s holdings in such a manner as to make the farm 
work of the greatest possible good to the prisoner and the public, and 
give to the State sufficient land holdings immediately surrounding 
the buildings as to make the farm industry which will be one of the 
main industries, worthy of so great an institution. 

It will be noted that the recommended purchases amount to one 
thousand and eighty-eight acres which will bring the total holdings of 
the State, when all this property is acquired, up to twenty-five hun- 
dred and thirty-six acres, and it must be admitted that this is none 
too large a farm holding for an institution of this magnitude, and it 
must also be admitted that in institutions heretofore constructed by 
the State of Ohio the fault has been that not enough land has ever 
been acquired at the start, and on account of this frequently the State 
has been compelled to purchase land located at a distance and 
operated at a disadvantage. The idea is to avoid such a contingency 
in this case. 


Fifteen 


ORDER OF PURCHASE 


HE tracts marked “Recommended Purchase A” at present 
owned by Ellsworth, two hundred five acres, and Cook, one 
hundred sixty acres, are recommended on account of securing 

gravel and sand deposits for the construction of the improvements. 


A gravel pit of small extent and small deposit was found years 
ago within the area at present owned by the State near the southwest 
corner, but investigation shows that this has been pretty thoroughly 
worked out, and the gravel and sand deposit still remaining would 
not be sufficient for the requirements. 


It must be borne in mind that in building and road improve- 
ments that will be necessary, not less than five hundred thousand 
cubic yards of sand and gravel will be required, and to secure this 
material within a reasonable and convenient distance of the proposed 
improvement will result in a saving in transportation alone of several 
hundred thousand dollars. Therefore the purchase of so much of 
the two tracts above mentioned is recommended as will undoubtedly 
secure an ample supply of the material required. 


The statement is made that the Ellsworth property contains 
large deposits of sand and gravel, but sufficient investigation has not 
been made of this property to ascertain positively the extent of said 
deposits, but an investigation of the Cook property has been made 
which shows that it undoubtedly contains a sufficient amount of the 
material required, and a proper and careful investigation of both 
tracts should be made before the purchase of either to clearly demon- 
strate whether only one or both of the above mentioned tracts should 
be acquired. 


A section of the eastern portion (50 acres) of the Horace G. 
Jones farm is marked ‘Proposed Purchase A’ and is necessary on 
account of securing the right of way for the railroad. It is recom- 
mended that at least the eastern end of this farm be acquired rather 
than to purchase a right of way through the farm, as it will be much 
cheaper to construct the railroad track straight across this farm than 
to put in the necessary curves and extra trackage to extend around 
it, and the land is about the best in that locality for farm purposes, 


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and probably the saving in the cost of the track and transportation 
will nearly offset the cost of the land recommended to be purchased. 

Tracts marked ‘Proposed Purchases B’; the Minerva Harden 
farm of thirty acres, and the J. M. Roberts property, sixteen and 
sixteen-hundredths acres, are recommended especially to control 
water rights; and the Warner Harrison farm, three hundred and 
three acres, also marked ‘Proposed Purchase B’ is recommended on 
account of its control of water rights and on account of the further 
fact that it is excellent farm land, conveniently located. 


‘Proposed Purchases C:’ 


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George Wbangen ine 86.41 acres 
ebaInese LOONEY panlot at Adland) 103 ~— acres 
Davidy trowbridge <2... 37> + acres 


are recommended on account of their value as farm lands and their 
situation being such as to fully round out and complete the holdings 
of the State in proper size and form. 


Seventeen 


BUILDING SITE CONSIDERATION 


AREFUL examination of the entire area at present owned by 
the State has been made on the ground, and topographical 
surveys have been made of all that portion affected by the pro- 

posed building areas. In fixing the building areas careful con- 
sideration has been given to the following points: 


First; convenient methods of access by railroad, interurban line 
and wagon roads. 


Second; a proper elevation to afford the best natural drainage 
by means of the streams flowing through the property, and to afford 
proper grade for sanitary drainage to the sewer connection and to 
the sewage disposal plant in the village of London which will be used 
in connection with this institution. 


Third; a site that would give proper orientation to the buildings 
to afford the best natural light and ventilation. 


Fourth; a situation for buildings that would afford the best and 
most commanding and impressive view of the institution as a whole 
from the main lines of approach thereto. 


Fifth; such a location as would bring the buildings in most con- 
venient touch with the entire present farm area and retain this same 
relation to proposed future purchases, this being of great practical 
benefit in the operation of the work of the institution as a unit. 


Eighteen 


SURVEY DATA 
See Drawings No. 3-5-6-7. 


HE present property holding of the State has been surveyed 
4p for boundary and general topography, and a topographical 

map has been made thoroughly covering that section of the 
farm where building sites are proposed, to furnish the necessary in- 
formation upon which to base reports and plans for improvement. 
Three major circuits of triangulation have been established, the 
major points having been marked with concrete monuments from 
which identification of any location upon the premises is made easy 
and certain. These points are located on the plat in such manner as 
will make their relocation on the ground easy in case the monuments 
are destroyed at any time. The contour maps show present grades. 
Finished grades are fixed and shown by elevations marked on the 
plats. In fixing these elevations due consideration has been given 
to the question of drainage, and careful consideration in fixing loca- 
tions has been given to proper means of access to building sites and 
from building sites to all portions of the property. 


Nineteen 


RAILROAD CONNECTIONS 


HE present south boundary of the property abuts on the C. 

C. C. & St. L. Ry., one of the major transportation systems of 

the State. The northeastern boundary of the property fronts 

on the Ohio Electric Railroad, thus giving connection with all parts 

of the interurban system of the State. Provision has been made in 

the development plan for the linking together of these two systems 

within the property as indicated on the plat, thus giving the best of 

transportation for passenger and freight in all directions, both by 
electric and steam railway. 

There will be required approximately eleven thousand feet of 
railroad and interurban track to extend through from the Big Four 
on the south to the interurban railway in the Somerford Pike, and 
leading off from this into the Penal Group enclosure, between the 
factory buildings and the power house, will be required approximately 
three thousand six hundred feet of side track. It is expected to 
electrically equip this railway and use it solely for the purposes of the 
institution. 


Twenty 


SYSTEM OF ROADS 
See Drawing No. 4 


ITH the site that has been chosen for the dominating build- 
ing groups, the natural main approach to the business offices 
of the institution will be from the Somerford Pike by way 

of a winding drive so outlined as to best adjust itself to the natural 
topography and to take the greatest possible advantage of the at- 
tractive features of this portion of the farm. 


The service roadway will enter from the Springfield Pike, and 
the purpose of this entrance being purely utilitarian, it will be con- 
structed along the most direct and shortest route to reach and extend 
through the Agricultural Group to and within the walled enclosure 
in the factory section. 


These two main approaches are linked together by a roadway 
entirely surrounding the walled enclosure with such minor branches 
leading off therefrom as will connect in the most direct manner with 
those parts of the farm area which it is thought necessary to connect 
with the building group by means of improved thoroughfares. 


As the major portion of the property is to be developed pri- 
marily for agricultural purposes it is felt that the road system should 
be as simple as will practically serve this purpose, as it would not 
seem desirable from a business standpoint to burden the institution 
with a heavy capital investment in roads with its attendant perpetual 
cost of maintenance. Therefore, only a few main roadways leading 
directly from building groups to all portions of the farm have been 
laid out on the plat. It is felt that such hauling as is necessary in 
the fields abutting on these roads, can be so controlled as to be carried 
on at such times of the year that dirt roads or ordinary cheap road 
construction can be laid out and used to meet the requirements; and 
as the farm purposes and development may change from year to year 
it may be necessary to shift and change unimportant roadways, and 
the construction therefore, should be of such character that where 
roadways are shifted the expense involved will be a minimum. With 
the one exception of the approach to the front of the institution from 
the Somerford Pike practical use of the roadways has been the con- 
trolling thought in laying out the same. The shortest distance be- 
tween the points obtains in all cases. 


Twenty-one 


In regard to the approach from the Somerford Pike this road- 
way is one of the important landscape features. It will wind around 
among the trees and will skirt the lake to be located in Oak Run, 
thus providing attractive vistas of the lake and the best possible view 
of the dominating group of buildings in approaching the same. 


Twenty-two 


ROAD CONSTRUCTION 


HE soil being of a black loam with a clay subsoil is naturally 
of a poor character for road foundations and rather difficult 
to drain. Therefore, all roadways will be well under-drained 

independent of the underdrainage provided for farm land in order 
to keep these roads dry and prevent breaking up and settling of the 
foundations, and where sloping surfaces require it, special surface 
drainage must be provided. 


The main drive from the Somerford road to the front of the 
institution, the main service drive from the Springfield Pike through 
the Agricultural Group to the service end of the Penal Group, the 
main connecting drive linking these two roadways together outside 
of the wall of the Penal Group, and all drives indicated within the 
walled enclosure will have the surface finished with hard paving brick 
laid on concrete foundation. All subordinate drives leading off from 
the roadways above noted will be water-bound macadam properly 
underdrained. 


Twenty-three 


GENERAL TOPOGRAPHY AND DRAINAGE 
See Drawing No. 3 


HE major portion of the farm is sufficiently undulating to 
afford good drainage grades, an excellent drainage system 
being furnished by Oak Run and its tributaries. The extreme 

western portion of the property is rolling and well wooded. The 
central section of the property touching the London and Somerford 
Road is a beautiful open woodland and comes in the foreground of 
the main building group. The extreme variation in elevation of the 
property is approximately eighty feet between the high ground in 
the western section and the outflow of Oak Run at the eastern line. 


The surface of the ground adjacent to Oak Run slopes toward 
it rather abruptly at some points but at close proximity to the stream 
the ground flattens out and is of a somewhat swampy nature. With 
the exception of two swampy areas northwest of the building site 
of only a few acres in extent the high ground has good natural 
drainage. 


The subsoil is a heavy clay and retains water to a considerable 
degree and should therefore, be well underdrained as indicated by 
the drainage plat. Practically the entire farm requires underdrain- 
ing to best fit it for agricultural work. Such areas as are being culti- 
vated have been largely underdrained. The additional lines needed 
are shown on the plat. This drain tile should be laid at a depth of 
thirty to thirty-six inches and the trenches in which it is laid should 
be back-filled to a depth of eighteen inches with gravel. Provision 
is made for under-draining the open area within the walled enclosures 
in the same manner. 


Although, as above stated, Oak Run and its tributaries have a 
good flow of clear water at all times of the year, and furnish good 
natural surface drainage through the property, at the present time the 
flow of the stream is greatly retarded by the irregularities in its bed 
and the growth of vegetation. This is especially true in the section on 
the western end of the farm. Oak Run should be thoroughly cleaned 
for its entire length and the banks straightened at some points. This 
will materially improve the swampy conditions along its edges. West 
of Oak Run is a small stream which has a clear flow until within a 
few hundred feet of Oak Run where it is obstructed by a swamp. A 


Twenty-four 


channel should be cut through and this swampy area properly under- 
drained, as indicated, to put the land in proper condition either for 
pasture or farm land and maintain the water ways within proper 
bounds. The ditch or stream coming into Oak Run from the south 
should have its channel straightened and cleaned, especially in view 
of the fact that it will receive a considerable amount of storm water 
from within the walled enclosure. 


Twenty-five 


LANDSCAPE DEVELOPMENT 
See Drawing No. 4A 


HE farm area is particularly fortunate, not only containing 
co an attractive building area near the center furnishing a suitable 
setting for the dominating group, but the contours and water- 
ways are such as readily lend themselves to beautification of the land- 
scape without excessive cost. The entrance to the front of the build- 
ing site winding through the open woodland before mentioned, should 
be flanked by additional planting in proper locations and this open 
woodland should be developed as a purely natural park with no 
attempt at artificiality. It is with the distinct purpose of enhancing 
the appreciation of this natural park that a direct roadway is aban- 
doned and the winding roadway is suggested. Proper grading and 
planting, together with the introduction into the foreground of the 
building site of the lake proposed by slightly damming the waters 
of Oak Run furnishes perfectly obvious reasons for the line of ap- 
proach suggested. 


Drives leading out from the main approach to the front reach 
the locations provided for the residences of the prison officials. These 
residences are thus removed completely from any atmosphere of 
institution life, and they are given an attractive setting within a 
convenient distance of the places of business of the residents and 
within easy reach of the interurban line. 


A very great addition to the landscape feature treatment will be 
the construction of the lake fed from Oak Run. The natural lay of 
the ground makes this entirely feasible, and a weir test of the dry 
weather flow of Oak Run shows that the capacity of the stream is 
ample to provide for the area suggested in the sketch. The water 
level will be at an elevation of approximately ten hundred and sixty- 
two (1062) in order to prevent flooding of the farm to the west. 
The material excavated from the lake will be used to construct the 
dam at the lower end and to change the natural contour of the surface 
in some places, it being proposed to construct this dam with such 
broad and gentle slopes as to create the impression that it is entirely 
natural in its formation, to give to the valley in which this lake is 
contained the appearance of having been naturally narrowed at this 
point. The outline of the lake is thereby made irregular and in- 


Twenty-sia 


teresting. The depth of the water should be from six to eight feet in 
order to obviate the growth of vegetation. Special provision should 
be made at certain points for the cultivation of water plants for 
beautification purposes. 

It should be borne in mind that a beautiful landscape setting for 
this institution is suggested not only on account of its general pleas- 
ing effect upon the observer, but on account of the fact that land- 
scape work, forestry, horticulture and the proper care of such well 
developed areas should be taught the prisoners as one of the useful 
industries of this institution, and the practical everyday training in 
the work necessary to care for a properly developed park here will 
be greatly beneficial; and further, the development of the foreground 
of the buildings into a park being so extensive in its area will not 
in any measure preclude its use as pasture land, and it will, therefore, 
serve a doubly practical purpose in this location. 


Twenty-seven 


THE BUILDING AND IMPROVEMENT PROBLEM 


buildings a thorough investigation was made of other similar 

institutions throughout this country and a careful survey was 
made of the present Ohio Penitentiary, its various departments and 
requirements for expansion. Many consultations have been held with 
various penitentiary managers and officials and the plan here recom- 
mended is based upon a careful culling and consideration of the in- 
formation thus obtained. 

The present Ohio Penitentiary has been in use for a period of 
over one hundred years and although at the time of its planning and 
construction it was undoubtedly thought to be a model institution of 
its kind and to contain ample provision for growth, improvement and 
development it has long since been found entirely inadequate and is 
at present unsuited in space, arrangement and equipment to the 
carrying on of such a work as is properly the function of such an in- 
stitution. 

In recent years the attitude of the State toward those who either 
through heredity, environment, misfortune, deliberate intent or by 
accident become violators of the law and thereby lose, for a time, 
their liberty and citizenship, has materially changed and these law 
violators are now considered as subjects for a curative, disciplinary, 
and necessarily a detention institution so planned and constructed as 
to emphasize the curative and educational idea. Therefore, the in- 
tent of the plan here recommended is such as to be clearly indicative 
of this purpose. It is proposed to make such provisions as will safely 
detain, properly house and suitably train the prisoner under the best 
and most humane methods known and this institution is so planned 
and arranged in its improvements as to emphasize by the very nature 
of the plan itself the idea of order, discipline, cleanliness and decent 
living. 

Provision is to be made for a maximum capacity of three thou- 
sand, but such flexibility in plan has been provided as will permit of 
the institution here recommended being just as complete and perfect 
in its operation when the housing capacity construction reaches fifteen 
hundred as it will be when it reaches the housing capacity construc- 
tion fixed as the maximum therefor. 

The question of safe detention has been solved by planning such 


I order to determine the number and character of the required 


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an orderly and well protected group of housing buildings and indoor 
industries as will immediately impress the prisoner with its security 
and eliminate from his mind all thought of attempt to escape, or to 
communicate with the outside except through regulated channels. 
This has made necessary the enclosing of the principal section of the 
Penal Group with a suitable wall and the proper protection of all 
outside openings with suitable bars. Not only does safe detention 
mean the prevention of the occasional escape of a prisoner (which in 
itself would not be seriously detrimental to the institution) but in 
the eyes of the law safe detention should and does mean that which 
is Just as important, the prevention of the contact of the public with 
the prisoner so confined, as good discipline and suitable training can 
not obtain in an institution that permits a man so being detained and 
trained to be constantly inoculated with the virus of the disease that 
placed him there. For that reason proper walls and bars are as 
beneficial to the prisoner as any other disciplinary safeguard thrown 
around him. 

In considering the question of proper housing practically all 
penologists, wardens and managers of penitentiaries agree that the 
widest possible segregation and classification should be provided that 
is consistent with reasonable and economical management and a 
reasonable cost of construction. In the plan of this institution pro- 
vision has been made for the widest possible classification of the 
prisoners in buildings and quarters as light, cheerful and sanitary as 
the magnitude of such an institution will permit. Careful attention 
has been given to the proper orientation of the living quarters, the 
spacing and relation of the same to each other and to certain fixed 
centers where the prisoners must of necessity assemble at stated 
periods every day. 

Arrangement for suitable training has been provided by the 
elimination of all idleness, as productive work is the best possible cure 
for the criminal tendency. Ample provision has been made for all 
kinds and classes of community work and no suggestion of an idle- 
house is contained in the plan. Rooms for library, school work, and 
manual training instruction, factories of the most up-to-date type 
and buildings and equipment required for the conduct of a model 
community farm in all departments are provided to the fullest extent. 


In addition to the school and manual training work, provision is 
made in the building improvement for the carrying on of such in- 


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dustries as can be conducted with profit to the State and benefit to 
the prisoners. In Ohio the present “State use” laws tend to some- 
what reduce the profit that might otherwise be derived from penal 
labor, but notwithstanding the restriction above mentioned there is 
no reason why such industries cannot be introduced into and carried 
on in this institution as will result in a great saving to the State even 
though the market for its products is restricted to State use. There- 
fore in the plan consideration has been given to and provision made 
for the following industries: 

Agriculture. 

Intensive gardening. 

Horticulture. 

Forestry. 

Stock raising. 

Poultry raising. 

Dairying. 

Meat packing. 

Elevators and Milling. 

Canning of fruits and vegetables. 

Iron work, such as is provided by blacksmith and machine 

shops. 

Cement post manufacturing. 

Soap manufacturing. 

Agricultural implements. 

Binder twine. 

Fertilizer. 

Wood working of all kinds. 

Sheet metal factory. 

Sign factory. 

Printing and book binding. 

Cotton mill. 

Knitting mill. 

Woolen mill. 

Clothing factory. 

Shoe factory. 

And in addition to the above list it is expected that prison labor 
will be used in the preparation of materials, such as sand, gravel, 
brick, lime and cement, stone and lumber, for the construction of 
the buildings and in the carrying on of all of the various departments 
necessary to the daily maintenance and operation of the entire plant. 


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A study of the development problem from the stand-points 
above outlined divides this improvement primarily into three groups 
or classes of buildings. 

First; the Penal Group consisting of 

The administration building, 

The housing buildings for the prisoners, 
Large chapel and assembly hall, 

Small chapel, 

Mess hall, 

Kitchen, 

Utility building, 

Hospital, 

Conservatory, 

Power plant, 

General maintenance building or store house, 
General factories for indoor work; 


all within or cosnected with the walled enclosure. 
Second; the Agricultural or Farm Group of buildings for out- 

side activities, consisting of 

Dairy barns and dairy, 

Veterinary hospital. 

Garage for automobiles and trucks and tractors, 

Horse barns, 

Repair shop for agricultural implements, 

Canning factory, 

Slaughter house, 

Grain elevator and milling building, 

Railway station for shipping and receiving, 

Houses and runways for poultry and swine, 

Dormitory for men in charge of agricultural group. 


Third; places of residence for officials in charge of or employed 

in connection with the work, such as 

The Warden, 

Deputy Warden, 

Chaplain, 

Engineer, 
and such other employees as it may be thought proper to house in 
connection with or contiguous to the institution. 


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The work in connection with the first two mentioned groups of 
buildings is closely allied and their relation to the entire area of the 
farm is such that the best result is served by locating these two groups 
as closely together as possible on an intersecting highway to be con- 
structed leading from the Somerford Road through to the Spring- 
field Pike, and on the connecting railroad track extending through 
from the interurban in the Somerford Road to the Big Four Rail- 
road that extends along the south line of the farm. Fortunately 
the consideration of the entire farm area discloses the fact that the 
location best suited for this group of buildings from every stand- 
point is situated almost exactly in the center of the present farm 
area and in the center of that which will be the maximum farm area 
when the recommended purchases are acquired. 

The third or residential group should be well separated from 
the first two, and not being of importance architecturally to the gen- 
eral grouping, these buildings have been located along the main ap- 
proach to the penal institution and in the beautiful open woodland 
situated between the Somerford Road and the main front of the 
penal group. 


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PENAL OR DETENTION GROUP 
See drawings sheets No, 11 and No. 12 


HIS is the dominant building feature of the institution and the 
site chosen gives to it the commanding dignity and perspective 
to which it is entitled; situated on the plateau to the south of 

and between Oak Run and the principal tributary of this stream that 
comes in from the south, on an axis extending practically due north 
and south, the correct orientation, proper elevation for drainage and 
the best architectural effect are assured. Ample sunlight is secured in 
all of the buildings even during the shortest days of the year, as care- 
ful attention has been given to the spacing of the various wings with 
relation to the angle of the sun’s rays. Proper circulation of air and 
perfect natural ventilation is provided throughout this group of 
buildings due to the spacing and orientation above noted. 


The natural drainage of the site is excellent as the ground falls 
away from this plateau on three sides, and Oak Run averages twenty- 
two feet lower than the mean height of the finished grade of the build- 
ing site. 


The accessibility of the main groups of buildings, both from 
without the property and from the various units of the farm area, 
is excellent as is shown by the railroads, switches and proposed roads, 
on the accompanying Plat for Arrangement of Property. 


Such an extensive group of buildings as is necessarily comprised 
in groups one and two of this institution must be seen at an unusual 
distance to impress the observer with its greatest dignity and ef- 
fectiveness. The position of these general groups as placed in the 
plan, approximately thirty-two hundred feet from the main entrance 
on the Somerford Road and approximately twenty-eight hundred 
feet from the main service entrance on the Springfield Road to the 
south, provides such a perspective, and the grouping of the buildings 
on the comparatively high ground in the central section of the farm 
will be superbly effective as seen from any point on the adjacent 
highways and railways. 


The Penal Group of buildings again subdivides into three sec- 
tions: 
(a) The administration building, housing buildings for the 


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prisoners, large chapel and assembly hall, mess hall and kitchen, and 
quartermaster’s building, forming the main front group attached to 
the walled enclosure but not surrounded by the wall; all of these 
buildings being connected by a single corridor extending through the 
center from east to west, thus bringing in close and convenient touch 
with each other and entirely under roof those departments between 
which there is most frequent communication, and to and from which 
it is absolutely necessary that every inmate able to travel must go and 
come at certain stated intervals every day in the year regardless of 
weather conditions. 


(b) The hospital building for the treatment of the sick and 
infirm inmates and near this the conservatory for horticultural work 
and the propagation of plants; both located within the walled en- 
closure. 


(c) The power plant and manufacturing section, located at 
the south side and within the walled enclosure and separated from the 
central parade and recreation ground and the front part of the in- 
stitution by means of a high open iron fence; the intent being to 
further safeguard the prisoners by so dividing the manufacturing 
section from the living section within the enclosure as to make it un- 
necessary for any prisoner to go into the manufacturing section be- 
tween closing hours in the evening and opening hours in the morning 
except where detailed for special duty. 


The grouping of the buildings within the enclosure as above 
described has made possible such a conservation of space as to secure 
a large open parade and recreation ground; a very essential depart- 
ment and one seriously lacking in most penal institutions. 


In considering the problem it was realized that it would probably 
require a number of years to complete the actual construction; that 
it was of the greatest importance to plan and arrange the buildings 
in such units as would give a complete working institution with a 
capacity not exceeding half the maximum limit proposed. 'There- 
fore a unit system was devised that provides for a duplication of cell 
houses or housing buildings for the prisoners, grouped and connected 
in such a manner as to make of this a complete operating penitentiary 
with a capacity as low as fifteen hundred and to increase this by units 
of two hundred fifty at a time until the ultimate capacity of three 


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thousand is reached; and at any point between the minimum and the 
maximum the institution will not only be complete in all of its work- 
ing parts, but it will have a finished appearance, and the architectural 
effect will be equally good at any of the stages in the progress of the 
work. 


A reference to General Building Plan No. 11 shows the entire 
building scheme for groups one and two. An analysis of group one, 
which is the more important, will illustrate clearly the unit idea in 
mind in developing the plan. 


In the housing section it will be noticed that the administration 
building, the large chapel and assembly hall, the mess hall and 
kitchen, the general utility building, and the small chapel form the 
central group, and on each side of this central group and connected 
therewith in the most direct manner by an enclosed corridor are the 
cell houses and dormitories. It is readily seen that the institution 
would be as complete in all of its operating equipment and its archi- 
tectural treatment if the central administration group were finished 
and any number of cell houses from one to the maximum complement 
shown were constructed on each side of it and connected in the man- 
ner indicated. 


The cell blocks, being a type of buildings providing for that class 
of housing which is admittedly the safest and best in prisons, and 
therefore containing that class of prisoners requiring the closest 
supervision from the center of management of the work, have been 
placed nearest the administration offices; while the dormitories, being 
a class of housing of admittedly doubtful merit in prisons, and 
naturally caring for that class of prisoners that would be given the 
greatest amount of liberty permitted by the discipline of the institu- 
tion, have been located at the extreme ends of the corridor. 


The connecting of all cell blocks by the use of one direct corridor 
as here planned makes possible proper guarding of the prisoners and 
proper maintenance of discipline in the housing buildings with a 
minimum number of officers, due to the fact that full observation of 
each of these buildings is made possible from this central connecting 
passageway. 


In the event that dormitories are constructed their supervision 
at night must be constant and a general guard such as could be 


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maintained from an inspection corridor occasionally would not be 
satisfactory. Therefore their distance from the center of the group 
does not in any manner affect the economical and proper manage- 
ment of the work carried on therein. 


Flexibility of plan for the entire institution permitting of the 
construction of units increasing the capacity from time to time as 
might be desired has not only been provided as above described, but 
flexibility in the construction of some of the units themselves might 
be necessary and has therefore been taken care of; those buildings 
that it is possible to construct in units being as follows: 


First; the mess hall can be constructed in units by erecting the 
central section and adding thereto on either one or both sides spaces 
equivalent to one or more of the bays indicated by the location of the 
trusses supporting the main roof. 


Second; the hospital is in itself a building composed of an 
administration unit and three wings each of which will form a unit of 
construction as the demands for capacity increase. 


Third; the conservatory can be handled in the same manner as 
suggested for the hospital. 


Fourth; the buildings for storage of raw products, finished pro- 
ducts, the large manufacturing building, and the small manufactur- 
ing building, all of these are planned on a unit system; it being ex- 
pected that the full frontage of the buildings adjoining the railroad 
tracks will be constructed as many bays deep as would meet the re- 
quirements at the start; extending the bays as the needs increase until 
the maximum space indicated by the plan is provided, at which time 
the maximum requirement of the institution will be met. 


Fifth; the maintenance building. It is expected that this build- 
ing will cover the entire area indicated by the plan but for the first 
few years will not require more than the basement and two stories 
in height, but it is planned strong enough to carry two or three ad- 
ditional stories as the business and requirements of the institution 
increase, and these stories can be added at any time to meet the needs. 


Sixth; the large chapel, general assembly and amusement hall 
is a building that cannot well be constructed in units, therefore it 
should be one of the last to be constructed. As planned it provides 


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for a seating capacity of twenty-five hundred, but should it be de- 
termined upon further consideration to reduce the capacity of this 
building the most practical method of so doing would be to reduce 
the size of the balcony, and this would affect more of a saving in its 
construction and accomplish a better result than any other scheme 
of reduction that could be devised. 


The amount of kitchen and bakery space that would be required 
as between provision for two thousand and three thousand would not 
vary enough to justify an attempt to divide the kitchen space into 
different units of construction. 


The amount of space that would be required for administration 
offices, school rooms, library, chapel and general utility building 
would not vary enough between that required for two thousand and 
three thousand population to justify an attempt to construct any of 
these departments upon a unit plan. 


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AGRICULTURAL GROUP 


See drawings sheets No. 11 and No. 12. 
HE same care has been exercised in the planning and location 
T of the agricultural group of buildings outside of the enclosure 
to provide for expansion to the maximum indicated, by the 
erection of proper units as the requirements demand, and the location 
of this group where shown brings it into such close touch with the 
existing group of agricultural buildings now in use on the farm by 
means of the direct roadways provided, as to make practicable the 
continuance of the use of the present buildings in their present lo- 
cation in connection with the farm work for such period of time as 
these buildings may be in fit condition to serve the purposes for 
which they were constructed. 


RESIDENTIAL GROUP 


Definite provision has been made in this plan for only the follow- 
ing residences: 

Residence for Warden. 

Deputy Warden. 

Chaplain. 

Resident Engineer. 

Resident Physician. 

The location and grouping of these buildings is shown on Drawing 
No. 4. 

It has not been thought well to provide for any sleeping rooms 
for guests or the public or for officers of the institution within the 
penitentiary itself, and it is presumed that guards and general em- 
ployes will have their own places of residence either in London or at 
such convenient locations as may best meet their requirements. 
Places of residence will only be furnished for the principal officers 
as above outlined. 


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ARCHITECTURAL TREATMENT 


HE Bird’s-eye View, Drawing No. 12, gives a comprehensive 
T idea of the general and effective grouping and the architectural 
treatment of the same. The design of the individual units com- 
posing the various groups of buildings is clearly set forth by the 
elevations accompanying each of the building plans, and it is seen 
from these that expensive ornamentation and detail have been elimi- 
nated and reliance for artistic effect has been placed upon the proper 
grouping and correct lines and proportions of the various buildings. 


The dominant thought in the design has been to clearly show in 
the most logical and simple manner a true expression of the plans 
of the buildings. This is primarily a large housing and industrial 
plant for practical tramimg and manufacturing purposes. There- 
fore the emphasis is placed upon the proper lighting, the relation of 
the buildings to each other, the suitability of the buildings for the 
work to be carried on therein; and it has been constantly borne in 
mind that the greater amount of the construction would be carried 
on by prison labor. ‘This made even more necessary the designing 
of the buildings in a style that could be properly executed by labor 
a large amount of which is of necessity unskilled. 


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GENERAL TYPE OF CONSTRUCTION 
MATERIALS 


NLESS otherwise specifically mentioned the materials to be 
U used will be as follows for all buildings: 

For all structural members, floor and roof construction 
reinforced concrete composed of local gravel properly crushed and 
graded, and local sand properly cleaned, and Portland cement, with 
the proper amount of reinforcing metal. 

Where stone is mentioned for door sills, outside steps, platforms 
or for floors in buildings, the stone referred to is Ohio limestone from 
the State quarries. 

Where stone is mentioned for trimmings, belt courses or cornices, 
either northern Ohio sandstone or Bedford limestone is meant. 

Where brick is mentioned either for supporting walls, exterior 
walls, or outside wall facing, brick from the factories operated by the 
State of Ohio are to be used. 

Where interior walls are finished in brick, salt glazed Ohio brick 
are to be used. 

Where marble is mentioned for floors, base courses, or interior 
finish, gray Tennessee or marble of similar character, worked and 
finished by prison labor, is to be used. 

Where tile partitions are specified, ordinary hollow tile partitions 
are to be used. 

Where composition roofs are called for, asphalt and gravel com- 
position applied on concrete supporting slabs will be used. 

Where metal flashings are mentioned either galvanized ingot 
iron or copper will be used. 

Where slate roofs are mentioned the best grade of unfading 
green slate will be used. 

Where plastering is mentioned for a finish on ceilings or walls 
an acceptable grade of hard mortar finished in Keene’s cement will 
be used. 

Where plastered ceilings are mentioned in buildings constructed 
of reinforced concrete the character of construction of the ceilings 
must be such, either by roughening the slab or by applying the ceiling 
on metal furring, as to permit of an absolute and positive bond of 
the plastering material to the supporting structure. 

Where concrete finished ceilings painted are mentioned the con- 


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struction of the form work supporting the concrete when it is poured 
must be of such a character as to provide a practically uniform sur- 
face for painting and finishing. 

Where exposed concrete is specified for base courses of buildings 
or for exposed surfaces and finishes of outside walls, the outside form 
must be constructed smooth and must be so arranged as to be removed 
from the concrete work as soon as the initial set of the concrete has 
occurred to permit of smoothing the outside surface with a float 
before the final set of the concrete, to give an even, smooth, straight 
and workmanlike finished surface. 


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GENERAL CONSTRUCTION AND FINISH OF 
BUILDINGS 


LL footings, foundations, supporting members, floor, ceiling 
and roof construction, unless otherwise mentioned, will be of 
reinforced concrete. 

The roof construction of the large chapel and assembly hall, mess 
hall, kitchen, power house and small chapel will be supported by steel 
trusses resting either on the walls or on steel or reinforced concrete 
column supports. Where ceiling construction is used in buildings 
having steel trusses the ceiling will be plastered on metal lath sup- 
ported by proper metal furring. The roof slab for the assembly hall, 
mess hall, kitchen and power house will be of concrete supported on 
steel trusses, but the roof construction for the chapel will be wood 
rafters and heavy wood sheathing. 

Exterior finish of foundations up to the top of the base course 
surrounding all buildings will be of cement floated to a smooth sur- 
face after the forms are removed. 

Exterior finish of buildings above the base course, unless other- 
wise specified, will be of brick trimmed with stone as indicated on 
the drawings. 

All exterior window frames and sash, except in the agricultural 
buildings, will be of steel. Window frames and sash in the agricul- 
tural buildings will be of wood. 

All roofs for buildings in the Penal Group will be of composition 
on concrete slabs, except the roof of the chapel. This will be slate. 

All exterior door sills, steps and platforms will be of Ohio lime- 
stone. 

The stack in the power house will be of reinforced concrete of the 
size and height indicated, or in lieu of this hollow radial block may 
be used if thought desirable. Proper lining must be provided for 
this stack. 

The general construction of the foundations, walls and floors 
of the agricultural group of buildings will be the same as described 
above, but the roof construction of these buildings will be supported 
by wood trusses with wood rafters and wood sheathing. The roofing 
materials will be of slate unless otherwise specifically mentioned. 

The finished floors throughout the agricultural buildings will be 
cement except for the stalls in the various horse and dairy barns. The 
floors in the stalls will be of heavy cork block laid on concrete. 


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INTERIOR FINISHES 


HE interior walls, except in the basement, of all rooms in the 
administration building, the connecting corridor betweeen 
buildings, all cell wings and dormitories, the power house and 

the hospital will be finished from floor to ceiling with salt glazed brick. 
This does not include the walls forming the cell partitions and backs. 

All walls in the mess hall, kitchen, bakery and storage rooms, 
the toilet rooms in connection with the kitchen and bakery, and all 
wall finishes in the utility building, including the basement in said 
building, will be salt glazed brick. 

The interior finish of all factory buildings and the maintenance 
building will be either common brick walls or smooth concrete. No 
plastering will be used. 

All columns, ceilings and floors in the factory, store rooms and 
maintenance building will be of cement or concrete; the finish of all 
floors in the power house will be of cement and concrete or creasoted 
wood block. 

The ceilings throughout the cell houses and dormitories and hos- 
pital will be smooth concrete slabs enameled. All ceilings through- 
out the administration building in the first story, unless otherwise 
specified, will be plastered and enameled. All ceilings throughout 
the second story of the administration building will be smooth con- 
crete slabs enameled. All ceilings throughout the utility building 
and laundry will be smooth concrete slabs enameled. This ceiling 
finish above specified does not apply to the basement, except in the 
utility building where the bath room is located. This ceiling will 
be a smooth concrete slab enameled. ; 

All ceilings throughout the mess hall where furred down to cover 
construction will be finished in hard plaster enameled. Ceilings 
throughout the kitchen, bakery and storage rooms in connection there- 
with will be smooth concrete slabs enameled. 

The interior finish of the large chapel or assembly and amuse- 
ment hall will be as follows: All walls in the lobby and corridors 
and stairways will be finished in salt glazed brick. All walls back 
of the proscenium arch in the stage section and dressing room section 
will be finished in common brick. All construction in the stage sec- 
tion will be left exposed for painting. The main auditorium in this 
building, both on the first floor and on the balcony, will have a glazed 
brick wainscoting six feet high and above this point the walls and 


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ceilings will be finished in plaster either on brick walls or metal fur 
ring. 

The interior finish of the small chapel is as follows: All interior 
walls in this building, except the basement room under the main audi- 
torium, will be finished from floor to ceiling in salt glazed brick. The 
ceiling of the main auditorium and the ceilings of the small rooms on 
the main floor in front of the main auditorium will be finished in 
plaster on concrete slabs or on metal furring. All other ceilings 
in finished rooms in this building will be smooth concrete slabs 
enameled. 

All floors in corridors and entrance vestibules of the administra- 
tion building first and second stories, all floors throughout the con- 
necting corridor between the buildings and all floors in passageway 
surrounding the cell blocks on the main floor, the floor in the entrance 
lobby to the assembly hall, the floor of the mess hall, kitchen and 
bakery, the floor in the bath house in the basement of the utility build- 
ing, and the gallery floors in front of each tier of cells, will be of 
marble. 


The floor of the central section, or trap section, of the stage in the 
assembly hall will be of wood in the ordinary theatre stage type of 
construction. 

All other floors throughout the large chapel and assembly hall, 
the finished rooms of the small chapel, the dormitory buildings, utility 
building, and in fact all floors throughout the institution not other- 
wise specifically mentioned, will be of terrazzo or tile. 


CELLS 

All interior cells throughout the institution will be finished on 
three sides and the ceiling and floor in smooth concrete enameled; 
the supporting and partition slabs being properly reinforced. The 
fronts of all interior cells looking toward the windows will be of steel 
bars. 

All exterior cells throughout the institution will be finished on 
all four sides, floor and ceiling in smooth concrete enameled, walls and 
floors properly reinforced. 


CONSERVATORY 

The foundation and walls of the conservatory up to the point 
where glass is indicated will be of concrete, and the finished floors and 
walks in this building will be of concrete. All of the construction 


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above the concrete foundation will be of steel and glass as indicated 
on the drawings. 


SKYLIGHTS 

Where skylights are indicated they will be constructed of metal 
with rigid supports properly flashed, using galvanized ingot iron or 
copper for flashings. 


WaLL 

The wall enclosing the Penal Group will be constructed of con- 
crete with brick panels as indicated in the drawings. The base and 
line surrounding the panels to be concrete in a smooth finish; the 
coping to be stone or reinforced concrete. The thickness and height 
of the wall is indicated on the plan. 


WINbDows 

The general style and size of all window openings is shown on 
the plans and as before stated all window frames and sash through- 
out the Penal Group and factory section will be of steel. All win- 
dows of buildings in the Penal Group that extend outside of the en- 
closing wall except the windows in the first story of the public offices 
of the administration building, and all windows in the hospital and all 
windows in cell blocks and in the main connecting corridors will be 
suitably barred. 

Windows in the factories coming entirely within the walled en- 
closure will be constructed of steel but it will not be necessary to 
equip them with bars. 

All large high windows throughout the institution will be ar- 
ranged to operate mechanically so they can be opened and closed 
from the floor at will. 

All windows in the saw-tooth section of the roofs of the factories 
will be operated mechanically so they can be opened and closed from 
the floor for suitable ventilation of these various departments or 
stationary windows may be used and proper ventilators inserted in 
the concrete sections of saw-tooth roof. 

The conservatory will be equipped with mechanical operating 
devices for a large section of the roof. 


GLass 

All outside windows of housing buildings will be filled with 
ribbed glass. All other glass throughout the buildings will be clear 
double strength. 


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Doors 

All doors throughout the Penal Group will be either metal 
covered or solid steel doors as may be necessary to suit the purposes 
for which they are intended. All doors throughout the agricultural 
building section will be of wood except where fire protection is 
necessary, and in such case they will be metal covered. 


Water TOWER 

The water tower will be constructed in the same manner as 
described for the buildings in the Penal Group with concrete founda- 
tions, structural steel supports, enclosed with a brick wall; the roof 
over the tanks to be of wood construction covered with slate or tile. 


PiLumsine, HEATING, LIGHTING AND MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT 

Full description of the method of installation of equipment 
under these headings will be found under Mechanical Equipment, or 
in the descriptions of the individual buildings. 


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ENTRANCE 


MAIN 


DESCRIPTION OF BUILDINGS 


HE drawings filed accompanying this description fully illus- 
trate the various buildings and their general arrangement, 
style of architecture and general treatment. Said drawings 

are made to the following scales: 


All drawings, except those for the large factory building and 
the residences, are shown to a uniform scale of sixteen feet to the inch. 


The drawings for the large factory building are shown to a scale 
of thirty-two feet to the inch. 


The drawings for the residences are to a scale of eight feet to 
the inch. 


General dimensions over all are figured on the plans above re- 
ferred to and, therefore, show in the cuts reproducing said plans con- 
tained in this description. For this reason in the following descrip- 
tion dimensions will not be given, except in a few particular instances 
as all information regarding sizes of buildings and rooms can be ob- 
tained by a reference to the drawings above referred to. 


The drawings herewith submitted for the various buildings are 
such preliminary drawings as are necessary to illustrate clearly the 
general character of the design and type of construction to be em- 
ployed to such an extent as will enable competent architects and en- 
gineers to secure the necessary information from and through which 
to prepare working drawings and details that will be necessary be- 
fore beginning the construction of the units of improvement pro- 
posed and outlined. Therefore, while general supporting walls are 
indicated in proper scale relation on the plan, it has not been intended 
to figure wall thicknesses, footing sizes or strength of supporting 
portions of the structure, as such information can only be properly 
developed when the working plans are made. 


The cuts illustrating the drawings referred to are for con- 
venience assembled in the binding of this report and numbered in the 
order referred to. 


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ADMINISTRATION BUILDING 


See drawngs No. 18-14-15. 

HIS building is located centering upon the main axis of the 

Penal Group in front of, but connected with the walled en- 

closure in a location that brings the managing offices in the 
closest possible touch with the work of the entire institution, and 
through the center of this buildmg by way of properly guarded cor- 
ridors is the only means of access to, or exit from, the Penal Group 
for the public, as all other gates to the Penal Group are closed and 
guarded at all times except when required to be open for the entrance 
or exit of trucks, cars, or prisoners in connection with the work carried 
on in the institution. 

The basement will be used only for storage and pipe space and 
for the location of heating and ventilating apparatus and ducts and 
electrical equipment. 

The main floor accommodates all of the general offices. The 
second floor provides accommodations for the library, the office of 
the superintendent of schools and rooms for educational work. 

The one main entrance to this building is located in the center 
of the front. The main lobby at this entrance is carried up through 
the two stories in height and finished with an arched ceiling. This 
being a great public institution it was thought well to give it char- 
acter and dignity in architectural treatment by emphasizing this one 
feature in the manner shown. This lobby will be finished in marble 
and stone to the ceiling, including the floor, walls and all casings, 
pilasters and treatment around door and window openings. The 
ceiling will be, a Gustavino arch. 

Immediately back of this lobby a transverse corridor extends 
from east to west. At the west end this corridor connects with the 
space assigned to the hired clerical force. This room will be used not 
only by the general clerical force but a portion will be set aside for 
such exhibitions of prisoners’ work as may be thought necessary or 
advisable. Connecting with this room is a large vault for the books 
and records, and immediately back of the vault, and entered only 
from the clerks’ space is a toilet room for those who work in this de- 
partment. At the east end of the transverse corridor is a general 
waiting room for the public, and by the public is meant visitors to 
the institution, either on business or for inspection purposes. To the 
north of this general waiting room is a private room for women and 


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toilet room for women opening off from this private room. To the 
south end of the waiting room is a private room for men with a toilet 
room for men opening off from the private room. 

Immediately adjoining the central lobby on the east, and con- 
nected with the lobby and with the transverse corridor, is the public 
office of the warden. Adjoining this office on the east is a private 
office for the warden with an entrance from his public office and from 
the corridor, and a private toilet room for the warden, located in the 
corner of his private office. 

South of the transverse corridor is the room set aside for the 
use of the Parole and Clemency Board, with a private toilet room. 

The above described sections of the administration building are 
outside of the barred or specially guarded section of the institution. 
Connected with the transverse corridor and extending through the 
rear wing of the building is a longitudinal corridor which is separated 
from the public parts of the administration building by two barred 
gates and grills. Access to this longitudinal corridor can only be ob- 
tained through the two gates mentioned and by passing a guard 
located at this point. 

In the rear or south wing of the administration building are 
located those sections of the building in which the active work in con- 
nection with the prisoner is carried on every day. All stairways lead- 
ing up through the building from the first to the second floor are 
located in the south wing and do not connect with the public portion 
of the building at all, as there is no necessity of permitting the pub- 
lic to have access to the second floor of this building, except by pass, 
under proper guidance of an officer. 

Entering this longitudinal corridor the first room encountered 
on the left is for the use of the clerical force that keeps the records 
of the Parole and Clemency Board. This room is connected with a 
large vault in which the records of the prisoners are kept, and it is 
also connected with the Parole and Clemency Board room by a 
private passageway properly guarded. This room is also provided 
with a private toilet room for the use of the clerks. 

The next entrance on the left is to the public office of the phy- 
sician and psychiatrist. A large room is set aside for the use of the 
psychiatrist with a large vault for the storage of his records. Only 
a small room is here assigned to the institution physician as his prin- 
cipal office will be in the hospital. The physician’s office in this build- 


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ing is only for use when required at certain hours of the day for the 
examination of new prisoners when they come into the institution. 

_A receiving room for prisoners is provided into which they will 
be brought and will there receive their examination. Connected with 
this room is a room containing shower baths, and sterilizing room. 
The next department back of the receiving room and baths is set 
aside for the receiving cells; the main or ground floor of this section 
will be about five feet below the general level of the longitudinal cor- 
ridor to give space enough in this department for two tiers of re- 
ceiving cells. There are six cells in each tier, or a total of twelve, con- 
nected by a stairway located at the entrance from the corridor. These 
cells front the windows and are, therefore, well lighted and well ven- 
tilated. In construction these will be the same as the cells described 
for the cell blocks or housing buildings; that is, the floors, ceilings, 
and walls on three sides will be of concrete enameled; the entire 
fronts will be of steel bars. Each cell will be six feet six inches 
(6' 6”) wide, nine feet (9’) deep, eight feet six inches (8’ 6”) high 
in the clear. Each of these cells will be equipped with water closet 
and wash bowl connected with the pipes in the utility corridor as in- 
dicated on the plan. 

Adjoining the detention cell department is the Bertillon room 
with its vault for records, dark room for development of photographs 
and complete Bertillon equipment. Located at the rear of this 
wing on the left of the longitudinal corridor is the public office and. 
court of the deputy warden, and connected with it the private office 
of the deputy warden. It will be noticed that the deputy warden’s 
quarters are located as near the center of the institution as possible, 
abutting on the main entrance corridor and on the transverse cor- 
ridor that connects all of the buildings in the housing group. 

Going back to the front of the longitudinal corridor again, on the 
right hand side is one of the main stairways connecting with the 
second floor. Immediately back of this is the toilet, wash room, bath 
room and locker room for the guards. Back of the guards’ locker 
room is the guards’ barber shop and immediately back of this a large 
room set aside for the use of visiting relatives and such visitors as are 
entitled to conferences with the prisoners. Back of this is the general 
telephone exchange for the entire institution, the post office at which 
prisoners’ mail is received and censored, and the office of the chap- 
lain, who generally has charge of the mail. Back of the chaplain’s 


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office is a toilet room for general use opening from the corridor, and 
another stairway from the first to the second floor. 

It will be noticed that as much open space as possible, protected 
only by grills, is left in the partitions between the connecting corridor 
and the rooms on each side of it. This is for the double purpose of 
securing good light and ventilation to the corridor, and proper super- 
vision of the rooms used by the prisoners and especially those used 
by prisoners when in conference with outside parties. 


It being proposed that the second floor will be used by the 
prisoners for library, class rooms, laboratory, manual training, study 
hall, etc., all of the windows of the second floor will be provided with 
bars, and, as has been stated, there is no means of access to the second 
floor except from the private and guarded portions of the institution. 
The general lobby in front extends through this story and is separated 
and guarded and protected from the corridor by properly barred 
openings. 

The general circulating library is located near and connected 
with the stair hall so that it can readily be reached from the first story 
without entering the main corridor connected with the school rooms. 

Ample toilet room provisions have been made in the second floor. 

While divisions have been suggested showing proper size of class 
rooms, study rooms, offices, etc., any of the partitions between the 
class rooms could be shifted, increasing or decreasing the size of the 
rooms, increasing or decreasing the number of the rooms, without 
detriment to the general plan or construction of the building, the only 
fixed partitions being corridor and stairway partitions. 


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LARGE CHAPEL AND ASSEMBLY HALL, MESS HALL 
AND KITCHEN 


See Drawings No. 16-17-18-19-20. 


HESE buildings taken together form what is termed the cen- 
Je tral group of the housing buildings. The great capacity re- 

quired in these particular departments makes of these build- 
ings the largest and highest structures necessary. They are, therefore, 
the dominating feature of the Penal Group and their location is 
necessarily central in this group both on account of convenience in 
their use and creating proper architectural emphasis or feature at 
this particular point. 

These buildings are centered upon the main axis immediately 
in the rear of the administration building inside of the walled en- 
closure and connected with the main corridor as shown by the plan. 

The large chapel or assembly and amusement hall is attached 
to and uses a portion of the same wall as is used for the enclosing of 
the mess hall. This is for the purpose of conservation of space and 
enabling a proper grouping of the buildings for exterior appearance 
and convenience in use. It will be noticed, however, that there is 
no opening or door directly communicating between these two 
buildings. In their use they are as entirely separated as though they 
were located on different parts of the ground. 

The main entrance to the assembly hall is from the main cor- 
ridor connecting the housing buildings, and is separated from this 
main corridor only by the use of gates or grills so that it can be en- 
tirely shut off when not in use. 

In plan and treatment the large chapel and assembly hall re- 
sembles in form a modern theatre or auditorium. It is equipped 
with a stage having a regulation gridiron and wings for handling of 
scenery and stage settings, has a few dressing rooms and toilet rooms 
in connection therewith. It also has toilet rooms for the public near 
the front stairways. It is equipped with stairways and exits in 
proper location and capacity to conform to the requirements of the 
State Code governing buildings of this character. 

Care has been exercised in designing this building to keep it as 
small in plan and as low in its construction as would permit of a 
proper seating space with proper sight lines for the number to be 
accommodated therein. It has a seating capacity of approximately 


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twelve hundred in the balcony and fourteen hundred on the first floor. 
Boxes have been provided on each side above the level of the main 
floor accessible from private corridors and private stairways. These 
boxes are intended only for the use of visitors to the institution and 
not to be used by the prisoners. 

It is expected that this building will be used for all large gather- 
ings of the prisoners for such purposes as religious instruction, lec- 
tures, musical entertainments, picture theatres, or any theatrical or 
dramatic production or amusement that may be considered proper in 
the work of the institution. Therefore, its uses are many and varied 
and the type of building here shown is that which will permit of the 
best possible service for any or all of its requirements above noted. 

Provision has been made in the design of this building for such 
window openings and sky light areas as will admit an abundance of 
natural light for such entertainments or gatherings as the use of 
natural light is appropriate and proper. The building, however, 
should be equipped with shades and screens in such manner as to 
enable the putting on of productions under artificial light during day’ 
light periods if so desired. 

The regulation stage equipment will be provided for with switch- 
boards and electrical outlets to properly handle dramatic productions. 

Access to the courts at each side of this assmbly hall is provided 
by wide driveways and walks passing underneath the corridors form- 
ing the entrance to the mess hall at each end, and these courts are 
sufficiently large to furnish ample light and air circulation for natural 
light and ventilation to this building. 

The finishes of this building have been described under the head- 
ing of General Type of Construction. 

The mess hall is connected with the main transverse corridor 
by a corridor at each end as indicated. It is expected that these cor- 
ridors will be the main thoroughfares for the prisoners, not only from 
their quarters to the mess hall, but from the housing quarters to the 
factory section and outdoor work. In width all enclosed corridors 
are ample to permit of properly handling the prisoners under mili- 
tary discipline. Gates are provided at the ends of the corridors lead- 
ing into the mess hall at each end and these gates will be kept closed 
except during the time meals are being served. 

The mess hall is divided into two large rooms of equal size, 
each room has a seating capacity of approximately twelve hundred 


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fifty (1250), making a total capacity for the mess hall, when the 
institution reaches its ultimate requirements, of twenty-five hundred 
(2500). 


This building is so planned as to permit of its construction in 
two or more units as may be desired, and as has heretofore been 
described. 


The seating arrangement as shown on the plan provides for 
seating on both sides of each table with no seats at the ends of the 
tables. Ample provision is made for service and for proper handling 
of the prisoners by the wide passageways through the center directly 
opposite the entrances and by the wide passageways leading from the 
central section of the building direct to the service openings in the 
kitchen. <A large balcony has been provided above the dividing wall 
between the two dining rooms and against the kitchen wall for the 
accommodation of the band or orchestra, so situated as to furnish 
music to both rooms at the same time when so desired. The central 
partition will extend to the height indicated in the cross section of 
this room. This is sufficient to furnish the necessary division between 
the rooms wthout interference with the natural ventilation of the 
entire space. 


Ample provision is made for natural light by the spacious win- 
dows and the large clere story and sky light extending nearly the full 
length of the entire building through the center. This sky light will 
be so arranged as to open mechanically; it will have electric control 
for the operating devices and will furnish the best of natural ventila- 
tion at such times of the year as it may be possible to take advantage 
of natural ventilation. The artificial ventilation of this room is 
described under the heading of Mechanical Equipment. 


The kitchen immediately adjoins the mess hall, no serving 
rooms are provided as service will be direct from the kitchen to the 
mess hall through large openings. These openings are not expected 
to be closed with doors but are to be left open continuously, the ven- 
tilating apparatus being so arranged as to at all times cause a strong 
draft from the mess hall into the kitchen and out of the building 
through the monitor in the ceiling of the kitchen. Natural light and 
ventilation in the kitchen are provided by windows in each end and 
by a large monitor in the center of the room as indicated by the plan 
and sections. 


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The bakery immediately adjoins the kitchen and is separated 
therefrom by partitions and doors. The storage room marked in 
connection therewith is only for such stores as will be required for 
daily consumption; the main storage for food supplies and the main 
cold storage equipment being located in the maintenance building, 
and issues from the maintenance building to the kitchen will be made 
as required every day. An office for the steward is provided and a 
general toilet room for kitchen help. 

A stairway leads from the storage space adjoining the kitchen 
down to the basement. In the basement underneath the kitchen 
wing will be the scullery and storage for vegetables. In the base- 
ment underneath the west wing of the mess hall rooms will be pro- 
vided for the band and for the storage of its instruments and various 
equipment. The remainder of the basement under the mess hall 
and kitchen will be used for general storage purposes and such 
mechanical equipment as is required. 


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UTILITY BUILDING 
See Drawings No. 21-22. 


HIS building is situated immediately west of the assembly 
and mess hall and is connected with the main transverse cor- 
ridor at the front, and forms one of the wings extending from 

the corridor, balancing in plan with the cell wing extending in the 
opposite direction from the corridor. 

Being a building of general use for the housing quarters its 
location as near the center of the work as possible is the most con- 
venient one that could be chosen. In the front half of this building 
next to the main connecting corridor is located the following depart- 
ments: 

In the basement is the general bathing department for prisoners. 
The main floor is on a level with the main corridor approximately five 
feet above the grade. It is intended that large areas will be ex- 
cavated on each side of this front basement extending down below 
the sill of the basement windows to permit of ample daylight and 
natural ventilation for this room. Shower baths are located along 
each wall and in a double line through the center of the room. Im- 
mediately adjoining the showers are benches on which will be placed 
bins to receive the dirty clothing. Ample passageways are provided 
between the benches for guards and attendants. Dirty clothing is 
removed from this room to the laundry by way of the stairway 
shown at the rear of the bathing department. 

This bath room will be floored and wainscoted with marble and 
the partitions between the shower baths will be marble extending 
from the floor up approximately three feet six inches high. 

The main floor of the front section of this building is on a level 
with the connecting corridors. It contains a room in front for the 
storage and disbursement of clean clothing. Immediately back of 
this room is a small room for a shoe shop and shoe mending depart- 
ment, and a large room for tailor shop and mending in connection 
with the laundry. 

The second floor of the front section of this building is used en- 
tirely for the barber shop. Space is provided for approximately 
seventy-five chairs on this floor. 

In the use of these departments the prisoners will march in from 
the corridor, pass around through the first floor lobby, receiving at 


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the counters on each side of the lobby their clean clothing, and pass 
down the basement stairway to the bathing department where their 
dirty clothing will be removed and sent to the laundry. After bath- 
ing they will march up the front stairway to the barber shop in the 
second story, and after being shaved will march down to the main 
connecting corridor: on the first floor and back to their cells or their 
work as the case may be. 

The general laundry occupies the rear half of this building and 
is only one story in height. Ample light and ventilation is provided 
by means of the large side windows and the large monitor extending 
the entire length of the roof. 

Direct outside entrance to the laundry is Lge at the east 
side so that bedding or clothing, either from the hospital or from cell 
blocks can be brought to the sterilizing room and treated there be- 
fore being passed into the laundry. The laundry machinery is 
blocked out on the plan to indicate that proper space has been pro- 
vided for the entire equipment. 

It is in this building that all of the clothing and shoes for the 
prisoners will be cared for and all of the issues to prisoners in the 
nature of bedding, clothing, shoes, and wearing apparel of every 
kind will be made. 

A third story is provided over the front section of this building 
that has no connection whatever with any other portion of the build- 
ing. Leading to this story is a private stairway connected only with 
the public corridor. In this third story are located the disciplinary 
cells for the entire institution, and entirely separated from the dis- 
ciplinary cells by heavy walls and iron doors, accessible only from the 
private stairway above mentioned, are the detention cells and death 
house, commonly termed ‘The Annex’ in the Ohio Penitentiary. In 
this department provision has been made for several detention cells, 
barber shop, dressing room, bath room, generator and switch board 
room, and death chamber. 

Located at this point the electrocution chamber is central for 
supervision, and secluded to such an extent that it will never attract 
the attention of visitors, prisoners, or guards unless especial atten- 
tion is called to it. 


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SMALL CHAPEL 
See Drawing No. 23. 


for the chapel services exclusively a room entirely separate from 

the general assembly hall, and in an institution of this magni- 
tude it is undoubtedly a necessity. Therefore, such a building hav- 
ing a seating capacity of seven hundred in its main auditorium is 
here provided. 

Situated immediately east of the assembly hall this building is 
centrally located. It faces the main connecting corridor and in plan 
balances up with one of the cell wings in front of this corridor. 

The basement under the main auditorium is unfinished and is 
used only for pipe space and heating and ventilating apparatus. 
That portion of the basement under the front section of the building 
is finished and is used for a class room for religious instruction. 
Access to this basement is by way of the stairway situated in the 
vestibule where indicated. This basement is well lighted from win- 
dows that are above the grade line. 

The main entrance to the building is in the north front looking 
towards the main connecting corridor but is connected with this cor- 
ridor by an open walk instead of a covered passageway. 

On each side of this main entrance corridor in the front section 
of the building provision is made for the library, office, work space, 
and one bed room and bath for the accommodation and use of the 
chaplain in charge of this work. Other than the special arrangement 
and equipment above mentioned the building contains the ordinary 
arrangement and appearance requisite for its purpose, so adjusted 
that it is equally adapted for religious services of any denomination 
that might see fit to use it. Its finish, construction and equipment 
are described under the heading of General Type of Construction. 


I T has been the practice in the Ohio Penitentiary for years to use 


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CELL HOUSE OR HOUSING BUILDINGS FOR 
PRISONERS 


See Drawings No. 24-25. 


HE general plan provides space and shows locations for ten 
ap cell wings extending north and south from the main connect- 

ing corridor. Each of these wings contains two hundred fifty- 
six (256) individual cells located in four tiers. 

The intent in this institution is to provide accommodation for 
only one man in a cell, this being the ideal method of operation. 

Dividing the housing units as above indicated permits of as wide 
a classification as is feasible and practical in an institution of this 
magnitude. 

Two types of cell buildings have been planned; one having the 
cells located in blocks in the center of the cell wing; the other having 
the cells located against the outside walls of the cell wing, each cell 
having a direct outside window. These are referred to hereafter as 
inside and outside cell blocks. 

It is considered by prison managers that the best constructed 
prisons should contain both types of housing here indicated, and for 
that reason this provision has been made, and while the general plan 
indicates four cell wings of the exterior cell type and six cell wings 
of the interior cell type, in actual construction of the institution and 
in its general appearance after constructed it is not material as to 
where these different types of cell wings are placed or whether more 
or less of either type are actually used. 

It is considered that the interior cell block for a certain type of 
prisoners that are inclined to be most unruly and difficult to detain, 
is the safest and best, on account of the fact that the cells are located 
at the point where communication with the outside is impossible and 
constant supervision through the cell fronts is easy and practicable 
at all times during the day or night, and as a matter of fact with 
modern systems of ventilation and large window areas properly 
equipped the interior cell block can be as well lighted and as well 
ventilated as the exterior cell block. Therefore, no physical dis- 
comfort is encountered on the part of the prisoner so confined therein. 

It can be said in favor of the exterior cell block that it permits 
of a greater degree of privacy to the individual by reason of the fact 
that the doors between the cells and the public corridor can be entirely 


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closed and the individual prisoner has full control of opening and 
closing his window for ventilation purposes at will and with a certain 
class of prisoners this degree of individual liberty and control is en- 
tirely safe and proper. 

All cells in both types of cell blocks shown are finished in the 
same manner except that the fronts of the cells in the interior cell 
blocks are open bars while the fronts of the cells in the exterior cell 
blocks are solid partitions and solid doors, except for the opaque glass 
panels in doors to light the corridors. 


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INTERIOR CELL BLOCKS 
See Drawing No. 24. 


ACH of these cell blocks is connected with the main corridor 
in the first story in such manner by the use of steel sash and 
clear glass between the corridor and the cell block as to per- 

mit of a full view of the corridor at each side of the cell block being 
obtained from the main corridor without entering the cell block 
proper. Thus careful general supervision is provided from this cen- 
tral point without compelling the guard to enter the cell block except 
on special occasions or when some breach of discipline occurs in the 
cells. 

In these cell blocks the cells are arranged in the center with a 
wide corridor entirely surrounding them against the outside walls, 
and a utility corridor of ample space against which the blocks of cells 
abut in the center. This utility corridor contains all of the water and 
drainage lines and ventilating ducts connecting with each individual 
cell. 

Kach cell is equipped with a water closet and wash bowl and a 
small steel locker for the prisoner in which to keep his personal ef- 
fects, and one fixed cot. 

The fronts of these cells looking towards the outside windows 
are open steel bars the full width and heighth of the cell itself. The 
doors are arranged to slide and are so mechanically operated that 
they can be opened and closed singly or in groups as may be desired. 

A reference to the cross section through these blocks shows the 
arrangement of the ceiling to permit of the outside windows extend- 
ing well above the ceiling of the upper tier of cells, thus securing 
ample sunlight in the top as well as the bottom tier of cells. 

Approximately sixty per cent. of the outside walls of these cell 
blocks is glass. These large windows are so installed as to be mechan- 
ically operated from the main floor. 

Stairways are provided at each end of the blocks of cells and 
galleries of ample width with marble floors surrounding the cells in 
each story. 

Each cell in this type of building is six feet six inches (6’ 6”) 
wide, ten feet six inches (10’ 6”) long and eight feet six inches (8’ 6”) 
high in the clear, floors, ceilings and walls being finished in smooth 
concrete enameled. 


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EXTERIOR CELL BLOCKS 
See Drawing No. 25 


HE manner of connecting the exterior cell blocks with the 
main corridor is the same as that for the interior cell blocks, 
except that the space filled with sash and glass is only equal to 

the width of the central corridor through this building, but it per- 
mits of the same general supervision of the interior of the cell blocks 
between the cells as above noted. Ample light and ventilation is pro- 
vided for this interior corridor by means of a sky light and the win- 
dows at each end of the block. In addition to this a large amount of 
light is secured in the central corridor through the upper half of the 
cell doors which will be filled with woven wire ribbed glass. 

The doors in the exterior cell block are of such construction as 
to entirely close the cells off from the central corridor when they 
are shut. No bars are used in these cell fronts. The doors will slide 
and will be equipped so that they can be operated singly or in groups 
as desired, and they will be so adjusted that they can be entirely 
closed and locked, or they can be left open approximately four or 
five inches and locked at this point to secure better natural ventila- 
tion in warm weather. 

Instead of a general utility corridor for all cells in these wings, 
a utility shaft is provided for each double tier of cells; that is, one 
utility shaft cares for eight cells. ‘These shafts contain all pipes and 
ducts. The plumbing equipment and general finish of the cells in 
the exterior cell blocks is the same as that described for the interior 
cell blocks, but the forcing of fresh air into the cells would not be 
necessary as the prisoner has control of the outside window and can 
open and close it at will and secure any amount of fresh air desired 
for his individual comfort at all times. The same system of stair- 
ways and galleries is provided as is described for the interior cell 
block. 

The basements under the cell blocks are only used for pipe space, 
ventilating ducts, ventilating apparatus and electrical equipment, 
and access to these basements is only obtained by way of the main 
connecting corridor and tunnel system and at no point from the cell 
blocks direct. 


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DORMITORY BUILDINGS 
See Drawing No. 26. 


OCATIONS have been provided in the general plan for two 
dormitory buildings, one at each end of the main connecting 
corridor. ‘The only entrance to these buildings is by way of 

the main connecting corridor. These buildings are exact duplicates 
and therefore, drawings for only one are shown. 

The dormitory buildings are three stories high above the base- 
ment and each consists of two wings, one on each side of the main cor- 
ridor, and on each floor in the extreme north and south ends of the 
buildings are the sleeping rooms. Each sleeping room accommo- 
dates fifty beds. Next to the sleeping room on one side of the cor- 
ridor is a toilet room and on the opposite side a private room for the 
guard and a locker room for the clothing of the prisoners. A living 
room is provided next to the main entrance corridor on each side, and 
a stair hall connecting with the upper floors adjoins the main cor- 
ridor on each side. The arrangement is identically the same on each 
floor except that on the second and third floors there are additional 
sleeping rooms over the space occupied by the main connecting cor- 
ridor on the first floor. Each of these buildings will accommodate 
three hundred and thirty-two (332) prisoners. Good natural light 
and ventilation is provided by the ample window space. The reason 
for locating these dormitories as shown are set forth in the general 
group descriptions. 


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The other three wings are used exclusively for hospital work 
and on each floor are almost identically the same; that is to say, there 
is provided on each floor in each wing three private rooms, one linen 
room, a bath room and toilet room, a utility room, and a ward caring 
for a maximum of twenty beds. The north wing on the first floor is 
assigned as the convalescent wing and the second floor is for con- 
tagious diseases. The south wing on the first floor is the medical 
ward and on the second floor the surgical ward. The west wing on 
the first floor is assigned to infectious diseases, the second floor to the 
treatment of tuberculars. Each wing on each floor is provided with 
an ample solarium and all of the general equipment required for 
hospital work. 'The general construction and materials used in this 
building are described under the heading General Type of Con- 
struction. 


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CONSERVATORY; 
See Drawing No. 31. 


HE conservatory as planned is intended to be used as one of 
the important departments of training work for the prisoners ; 
horticulture and the propagation of plants for gardening be- 

ing necessary to the proper conduct of the agricultural pursuits to 
be carried on in this institution. 

This building is so planned and arranged that it can be divided 
into sections having different temperatures and different degrees of 
humidity necessary in the work. Its construction has been described 
under the heading of General Type of Construction, and it is so 
planned that it can be constructed in units to meet the requirements. 
Its location is at a point where it is protected by the walls from the 
northwest wind and has proper exposure for light. 


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POWER HOUSE AND STACK 
See Drawings No. 82-33-34-35. 


HE location of the power house has been fixed as near the cen- 
ter of distribution of light, heat and power for the entire in- 
stitution as possible. The stack which is twelve feet in diame- 

ter and two hundred twenty feet in height above the boiler room 
floor forms one of the architectural features on the main axis of the 
entire institution. The construction and materials for this building 
are described under the heading General Type of Construction. 

This building contains the boiler plant with all of the collateral 
equipment for boilers in the nature of heaters, pumps, etc., also the 
pumps for the general water system, the hot water circulating sys- 
tem for domestic use and the generators and the general switch- 
board, the water softeners, and the office and headquarters of the 
Chief Engineer. 

As before stated the roof of this building will be carried on steel 
trusses supported on steel columns. Provision will be made on these 
columns for supporting a traveling crane in the generator room for 
the purpose of handling and installmg new machinery, or removing 
and repairing old machinery. 

The boilers to be installed will be equipped with automatic 
stokers. The space below the boiler room floor and in front of the 
boilers will be excavated and this space will be used for ash bins and 
work space and for future ash and coal conveying machinery. The 
main floor in the generator room will be supported from the _ base- 
ment independent of the generator foundations. The department 
set aside for the water softener will contain three floor levels to en- 
able proper access to, and operation of the water softening equip- 
ment. The freight elevator is located adjoining this department for 
the purpose of handling the chemicals required in the water softening 
tanks. 

As planned at present it is expected that the coal will be handled 
from the cars to the boiler room by manual labor. Coal will be stored 
in a yard to the south of the building and adjoining the railroad 
tracks, this yard being enclosed by a concrete wall. From this yard 
push cars will carry the coal to the electric conveyer running on a 
track in front of the stokers. This conveyer will deliver the coal 
into the stoker hoppers. 


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the future installation of overhead steel bins for coal and ashes. 

The building is well lighted and has the best of natural ventila- 
tion through the large windows on all sides and monitors in the roof 
extending nearly the full length of the boiler room and generator 
room. The windows in the side walls and the windows in the moni- 
tors will be so equipped as to be operated mechanically to provide 
ample ventilation. 

The main entrance hall on the first floor of the building opens 
into the chief engineer’s office and in this hall is a stairway providing 
access to the various floors. The chief engineer’s office is located 
and provided with glass in its walls and doors in such manner as to 
enable the engineer at all times to have complete supervision of each 
room in the building. Toilet room provisions are made in this build- 
ing for the engineer and workmen employed therein. 


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TUNNEL SYSTEM 
See Drawing No. 10. 


XTENDING from the power house as indicated on the plan 
will be a concrete tunnel system of ample size connecting 
with the corridors at each side of the mess hall in front and 

extending south and connecting with the space under the platforms 
in front of the factory buildings, also extending west connecting with 
small lateral tunnels leading into the hospital, conservatory and 
maintenance building, extending out under the roadways and back 
to the agricultural group. 

These tunnels will be constructed entirely under ground, will 
have man holes at frequent intervals for ventilation, and will be 
divided into two compartments, one for carrying electric conduits 
and the other for steam and hot water lines and such other lines as it 
may be thought advisable to place therein. 


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See Drawings No. 82-38. 


HIS is situated on the main axis of the Penal Group and to the 
T south of the walled enclosure. The interior structure for sup- 

porting the water tanks is of steel as indicated on the section. 
This supports two tanks; one for the general hard water supply and 
the other for soft water located directly below the general supply 
tank. The outside enclosure for the tower is of brick with stone 
trimmings. The building has a slate roof. The tower will be 
equipped with stairway leading up to the various floor levels to pro- 
vide easy access to the various valves, pipe lines, and equipment in 
connection with the water tank. 


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MAINTENANCE BUILDING 
See Drawings No. 36-37. 


HIS building will contain the general cold storage apparatus, 
flip ice making machinery and ice storage rooms. The machinery 

and equipment is described under the heading of Mechanical 
Equipment. The purpose of this building is to serve as a general 
store room for all food and maintenance supplies, not only for this in- 
stitution, but for such supplies as may be furnished by this institution 
to other State institutions. 

It is expected that ample capacity for this purpose will be ob- 
tained for several years by constructing this building a basement and 
two stories high, the structure to be of such strength as to permit of 
adding two more stories when the requirements demand. 

The basement will be used for the storage of vegetables. 

The first floor is occupied by the refrigerating apparatus and re- 
frigerated storage space for meats, dairy products and fruits, and 
the ice storage room, the general office and private office of the store 
keeper, the general toilet room for the men working in the building 
and a large room for general storage and shipping and receiving. 

The second floor will all be in one room and will be used for 
general storage space. 

The construction will be such that cold storage can be extended 
to and occupy a portion of the upper floors if desired later. 

An elevator is provided for handling materials to and from the 
various floors. Platforms for receiving and shipping by rail are 
located next to the railroad tracks, and wagon platforms opposite 
the doors in the east end of the building. 


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FACTORY BUILDINGS 
See Drawings 38-39-40-41. 


HE factory group consists of four separate and distinct build- 
AR ings as follows: 

Large factory building 

Small factory building 

Raw materials building 

Finished products building. 

All of these buildings are constructed upon a uniform plan of 
one story in height, saw-tooth roof construction for light and ventila- 
tion and the exteriors will consist of simply concrete columns, walls 
and girders, finished smooth with a float after the forms are removed. 
The openings between the girders and columns to be filled with steel 
sash and glass. The roofs will be concrete slabs covered with asphalt 
composition. The sky lights in the saw-tooth roofs will be of steel 
sash and glass; the windows and sky lights to be so adjusted as to be 
mechanically operated from the floor. 

All of these buildings except the small factory building will have 
the floors on concrete slabs approximately three and one-half to four 
feet above the finished grade level. The floors of the large manu- 
facturing and storage buildings are placed at this level for con- 
venience in loading and unloading cars and wagons on the adjacent 
platforms. 

The floor of the small manufacturing building is down on the 
ground as this building will be used for such purposes as require the 
floor near the grade level. 

There will be no basement under these buildings except such 
space as may be necessary for pipes and ducts. 


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SMALL FACTORY BUILDING 
See Drawing No. 39. 


N this building it is expected to house such industries as are more 
I or less dirty and, therefore, of such nature as could not well be 
cared for in the main or large industrial building. These con- 
sist of 
Soap factory 
Shop for manufacturing cement posts and sign posts 
Machine shop and foundry 
Blacksmith shop. 

The northeast corner of this building is set aside for the use of 
the storage of fire apparatus. 

That portion of the building devoted to the soap factory will 
have a two story section to enable proper location of apparatus for 
this purpose. All of the remainder of this building will be one story. 

It is not expected to construct this small factory in units, but to 
complete it, at the start and use it during the construction period of 
the institution for such shops as may serve construction purposes or 
the preparation and storage of materials for the building work; turn- 
ing it into the permanent uses for which it is designed as soon as the 
institution is occupied and operating upon a permanent basis. 


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LARGE FACTORY BUILDING 
See Drawnig No. 38. 


HE large factory building provides space for the principal 
Gh permanent industries of the institution as follows: 

Lumber working and carpenter shop 

Tin shop and factory for manufacturing auto tags and signs 

Print shop and book binding factory 

Cotton mill 

Knitting mill 

Woolen mill 

Shirt factory. 

A survey was made of the requirements of the Ohio Penitentiary 
in the lines indicated above and sufficient space was added to provide 
for the probable growth in the departments so located. It will be 
noticed that this building is constructed with a uniform column 
spacing throughout so adjusted as to permit of its being constructed 
in units. The sections occupied by the various departments can be 
constructed to any depth from the railroad track that is desired to 
accommodate the floor space necessary in the work, and any or all of 
the departments can be added to as the requirements of the work in- 
crease until the ultimate size of the building is reached. It is not felt 
that the requirements in the lines indicated will ever exceed the a!lot- 
ment of space provided for these departments in the plan submitted. 

The entire front of the building along the railroad track should 
be constructed, extending each department a proper distance frcm 
the track to meet the immediate needs, closing the south end of the 
building with a temporary wall and windows. The enclosure at the 
south end can be removed and extended back whenever desired. The 
main frontage of the building being toward the north, all saw-tooth 
roofs extend from east to west, securing all their light on the north 
side thus giving ample light and ventilation without permitting the 
direct rays of the sun to enter the building through the roof. 

The storage buildings for raw materials and finished products 
located at each end of the factory are the same type of construction 
as described for the main factory buildings and are expected to be 
constructed in units extending from the railroad track south in such 
manner as to provide for the capacity described as the demands in- 
crease. 


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Divisions of the factory buildings can be made by curtain walls 
extending between columns as indicated at points desired. Ample 
toilet and wash room facilities are provided and space should be set 
aside adjoining these toilet rooms for the loaction of lockers for the 
men’s clothing. 


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WALL AND GATES AND INTERURBAN STATION 
See Drawing No. 42. 


HE north side or front of the enclosure is formed by the hous- 
T ing buildings and the main corridor connecting the same. Con- 
necting with the rear of the two end cell blocks and extending 
entirely around the factory section is a concrete wall having concrete 
foundations and brick panels as indicated on the sketches. Service 
entrance to this enclosure is provided by two wagon gates; one on the 
east and the other on the west side. These openings are each pro- 
vided with two iron gates so adjusted and equipped as to be raised 
and lowered by electric motors. The space between the gates is 
sufficient to permit a truck or wagon to pass into same and be search- 
ed, if thought desirable, before going outside of the enclosure. 

Only one entrance is provided for cars. This is equipped with 
a single swinging gate. 

The design of the wall, gateways and guard towers is shown on 
sheet No. 42 of the drawings. Wall height will be not less than 28 
nor more than 33 feet. 

A small shelter and station for the interurban railway has been 
designed and is shown on Drawing No. 42. This building will be 
constructed, as shown by the design, to have concrete or brick plat- 
forms, brick piers and walls, wide projecting cornice, supported on 
iron brackets. The flat portions of the roof will be composition on 
wood construction and wood sheathing. The sloping projecting por- 
tions of the roof will be covered with either slate or tile. The interior 
of that portion that is enclosed will be finished with glazed brick walls 
and wood ceiling, and the exterior portion that is protected by the 
roof will have a wood ceiling. 


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AGRICULTURAL BUILDING 
See Drawings No. 43-44-45. 


HE location and general grouping of the agricultural build- 
ings is shown on plat drawing No. 1. It will be readily 
seen that the situation on the main service roadway leading 

into the Penal Group from the Springfield Pike, and on the line of 
the railroad which parallels this roadway, makes it most convenient 
for the delivery and handling of supplies. The buildings for stock 
are all located to the west of the road and adjoining the pasture 
lands. The manufacturing buildings are all located east of the road 
and adjoining the agricultural lands, and the entire group is almost 
exactly in the center of the present owned farm area. Provision has 
been made for the following buildings: 

2 large dairy barns 

1 dairy building 

Bull pens 

Horse barns 

Veterinary hospital 

Garage for truck and tractors 

Store house for farm implements 

Repair shop 

Poultry building and run-ways 

Hog pens and run-ways 

Canning factory : 

Slaughter house 

Elevator for handling grain and flour and feed mill. 

Railroad station 

Dormitory for men in charge of stock and equipment. 

Locations have been indicated for such incidental buildings as 
are required for storage of grain and straw and manure pits. 

While all of the above buildings have been located, sketches 
have only been provided for one of the dairy barns and the horse barn 
simply to indicate the type for these buildings. The character of 
construction and finish are described under the heading of General 
Type of Construction. 


Light, heat, power and water will be furnished to this group of 
buildings from the central plant in the manner hereinafter described 
under Mechanical Equipment. 


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RESIDENCES 
See Drawings No. 46-47-48-49. 


OCATIONS have been provided in the general plan for a 
number of residences to be placed in the foreground of the 
Penal Group, but sufficiently removed from the same to be 

outside of the institution atmosphere. 

The question as to the number of residences that will be required 
or that it would be advisable for the State to supply to employes not 
having been determined at this time, sketches in the preliminary plan 
have only been made for three such buildings, viz.: 

Residence of the Warden 
Residence of the Deputy Warden 
Residence of the Chaplain. 

The intent has been in planning these buildings to give to them 
a domestic and homelike treatment with no suggestion of institution 
life. 

No provision having been made in the administration build- 
ing for the accommodation of guests who, quite properly, will oc- 
casionally visit the institution and will of necessity be entertained 
there, the residence of the Warden is planned large enough to pro- 
vide such accommodations, but it is not planned large enough to per- 
mit of the abuse of the State’s hospitality; the intent being to provide 
the necessary accommodations but care being taken to see that it is 
restricted within proper lines. 

The sketches for the residences here referred to are so clearly 
explanatory of their arrangement and purpose that a lengthy de- 
scription of them is unnecessary. It is expected that these resi- 
dences will be supplied with light and water from the central plant, 
but that each of the buildings will be equipped with its own individual 
heating plant as this would undoubtedly be more economical than to 
attempt to furnish so small an amount of heat as would be required 
at so great a distance from the central plant. The sanitary sewer 
will be carried from these residences through the dam forming the 
lake in Oak Run and connecting it with the general sanitary sewer 
for the Penal Group. Im construction and finish these residences 
should be of the ordinary residential type, brick and cement ex- 
teriors, wood cornices, slate roofs, wood window frames and _ sash. 
The interior should have hard wood floors and hard wood finish 
throughout. 


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MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT 


CENTRAL PowER PLANT 

HE general power plant located as shown near the center of 
|" the institution contains all of the mechanical equipment pos- 

sible to concentrate at this one point and from this plant 
steam for heating and power, electric current for light and power, 
water both hot and cold, hard and soft for all purposes, will be dis- 
tributed throughout the institution as indicated by the tunnel lines 
shown on plat Drawing No. 10. 


Coat AnD AsH HANDLING EQUIPMENT 

The plant at present is designed for manual coal handling as 
labor at this institution will probably be in excess of the demand dur- 
ing the early period of its work. 

A retaining wall is provided for surrounding the coal storage 
space immediately in the rear of the boiler room. This coal storage 
space will be properly paved and drained. The coal will be stored 
outside. A roof can be provided for it if thought desirable but it is 
not considered a necessity. Railroad tracks are so arranged as to 
permit of coal being dumped from cars or shoveled from cars direct 
to the storage space as may be desired. Tracks for small dump cars 
will be provided extending from the coal storage space into the boiler 
room through doors placed in front of the boilers. The tracks from 
the coal storage space will be connected by turn tables with a track 
running the full length of the boiler room in front of the stokers, 
thus permitting coal to be dumped direct from the push cars into an 
electrically driven loader which will elevate the coal and discharge 
it into the stoker hoppers. This loader will be movable and will run 
on rails resting on the floor of the firing platform and against the 
stoker front so it can be used to feed any or all of the stokers. 

The above described manual coal handling equipment will be 
ample to take care of the plant at least during partial equipment 
and during the period of construction of the various buildings. It 
will be satisfactory for the completed plant provided sufficient labor 
is at hand for the purpose. The general plant, however, is designed 
to permit of the installation of a complete automatic coal handling 
equipment. This can be provided in addition to the manual handling 
apparatus without changing the same. The automatic equipment 
will include a traveling crane in the rear of the building supported 


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from the rear building columns and from columns provided on the 
wall of the coal storage yard parallel to the rear wall of the boiler 
room. ‘This crane should be equipped with a clam shell bucket which 
could be used for unloading cars or removing coal from the storage 
space and dumping it into the track hopper. 

A track hopper with crusher and by-pass should be placed at 
the in-coming end of the coal track in the rear of the boiler room 
connecting with an apron conveyer discharging into a pivoted bucket 
conveyor delivering the coal into overhead concrete lined steel bins 
in front of the boilers. A traveling weighing hopper can be run 
under the bins to receive the coal from the overhead bins and after 
weighing same discharge it into the stoker hopper. The overhead 
coal bin planned for is one thousand tons capacity. The capacity of 
the storage yard for coal is from fifteen hundred to two thousand 
tons. 

For handling ashes there will be installed a small verticle bucket 
conveyor placed at the end of the boiler room against the wall as in- 
dicated. Ashes will be raked from the ash pits in the basement of 
the boiler room into dump cars which run over to and discharge the 
ashes through a chute in the rear wall into railroad cars or trucks for 
removal, as may be desired. 

In case automatic ash removers are provided for, ashes will be 
scraped from the ash pits under the stokers directly to pivoted bucket 
conveyor in the basement and will be discharged into an ash bin of 
approximately three hundred tons capacity forming part of the over- 
head steel bin from which chutes will discharge ashes through the 
rear wall of the boiler room into wagons or into railroad cars. 

It is the intent in case of the use of automatic coal handling ap- 
paratus to reserve the storage of coal in the yard for emergency use 
only, and to feed the overhead bins direct from cars in so far as pos- 
sible and avoid one handling. 


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STEAM EQUIPMENT 


Boilers. Space is provided in the power house for the in- 
stallation of four thousand horse power (4000 H. P) water tube 
boilers in four batteries of one thousand horse power each; each bat- 
tery consisting of two five hundred horse power boilers. 

Examination has been made of the boilers at present in use in 
the Ohio Penitentiary and space is so arranged that the two batteries 
of boilers in the present power plant in Columbus can be used if the 
transfer can be made at such time as to make it worth while to move 
them. As to whether it will be worth while to make this transfer de- 
pends upon the length of time that will elapse before their removal 
will be possible. 

It is not expected that four thousand horse power will be re- 
quired at any one time for the operation of this plant even at its 
maximum size, but in planning for the same it has been borne in 
mind that good practice would make necessary the keeping of one 
thousand horse power or one full battery of boilers idle at all times 
for emergency and in order to keep the equipment in proper con- 
dition. All boilers should be designed for a working pressure of one 
hundred fifty pounds. 

Stokers. All boilers will be provided with an over-feed type 
stoker with extension hopper to permit of ample coal storage at all 
times for amount used. Stokers to be operated by steam driven 
stoker engines controlled by automatic draft regulators operated by 
steam pressure controlling dampers so arranged as to hold the steam 
pressure constant with not over five pounds variation above or below 
normal. All boilers to be operated on normal draft through breech- 
ing connected to the main stack located in the center of the boiler 
room. 

Boiler Feed Pumps. Four boiler feed pumps will be provided, 
each pump to be large enough to care for two batteries of boilers at 
normal piston travel but each will ordinarily be expected to care for 
one battery of boilers. This equipment provides for at least one re- 
serve unit at all times. Steam supply to each pump will be controlled 
by feed water level regulators on each boiler in order to maintain con- 
stant water level in operating the boilers at all times. 

Feed Water Heaters. There will be provided two exhaust 
steam feed water heaters of suitable type each having a capacity of 


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six thousand horse power; the feed water heaters to be arranged to 
supply the boiler feed pumps through a V-notch condensation meter 
arranged to be used with either or both heaters in operation. The 
feed water heater at present in use in the Penitentiary in Columbus 
can be used as a portion of the equipment for this plant. It is under- 
stood that this heater has not been used to any extent and is, there- 
fore, in perfect condition. 

Auxiliary Appliances. The boiler room will be provided with 
all necessary auxiliary appliances such as soot blowers, draft record- 
ers, C O* recorders, steam flow meters, tipping bucket condensation 
meters on returns from factories, and various steam equipment 
throughout, to enable proper cost records of the various departments 
to be kept at all times. It is only by the installation of such auto- 
matic recording appliances that proper economical operation of so 
large a plant can be enforced and obtained at all times. 

The Chief Engineer’s office will be provided with a complete 
set of recording instruments for operation in connection with the 
above described apparatus. 

Steam Distribution. Steam distribution for the entire institu- 
tion, both high and low pressure, is provided by way of the tunnel 
system and piping system indicated on plat, Drawing No. 10. 

Heating. A two pipe vacuum system of heating using exhaust 
steam from all engines and steam driven appliances or a forced circu- 
lation hot water system using exhaust steam for heaters or a com- 
bination of both will be provided for heating and ventilating apparatus 
throughout. ‘The exhaust steam connection in the power house will 
be arranged so high pressure steam can be used to supplement exhaust 
steam when necessary. 

Steam flow and return lines will run as indicated through the 
tunnels to the point of contact with the corridors which connect with 
the various buildings. Returns will be connected with the vacuum 
pumps placed in the basement where indicated in the boiler room. 
There should be three vacuum pumps provided, each having a capa- 
city of approximately two hundred thousand square feet of radia- 
tion. It is expected that two pumps will ordinarily be used, leaving 
one unit at all times in reserve. In addition to the heating lines in 
the tunnels exhaust steam lines and returns must be provided for 
taking care of the absorption ice machinery in the maintenance build- 
ing and such equipment in factories and throughout the institution 
as can be operated from exhaust steam. 


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High Pressure Lines. For supplying equipment in the kitchen, 
laundry and shops throughout which require high pressure steam 
there will be provided in the tunnels high pressure steam mains and 
returns necessary to supply steam at boiler pressure. These lines 
will be trapped in the various buildings where used and returns will 
connect into separate receiving tanks and pumps which will be placed 
beside the vacuum pumps in the basement of the power plant. 


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HEATING AND VENTILATING EQUIPMENT OF 
BUILDINGS 


Administration Building. The front section of the adminis- 
tration building in the first story will be heated by direct radiation 
only. The remainder of this building will have a combination direct 
radiation for heating and indirect heating sufficient to temper the air 
for the fan system for the introduction of fresh air throughout all the 
rooms. 


Assembly and Amusement Hall. Weated by direct radiation. 
In addition to the direct radiation this building will be equipped 
with a complete ventilating system for the introduction of fresh tem- 
pered air and the removal of foul air by fans. 


Mess Hall. This building will be heated by direct radiation 
and will have fresh tempered air introduced by a fan system. 


Kitchen and Bakery. The kitchen and bakery will be heated 
by direct radiation and will have the foul air removed by fans, it 
being expected that these departments will draw their supply of 
fresh air from the mess hall, thus providing a strong draft from the 
dining room to the kitchen and bakery at all times and avoiding the 
institution odors in these departments. 


Utility Building. The two cell blocks in this building will be 
heated and ventilated by an indirect fan system and will have a fan 
in the attic to remove the foul air the same as noted for cell blocks. 
The remainder of this building will be heated by direct radiation. 
Special provision will be made for the removal of vapor and vitiated 
air from the laundry room by special fan. The bath room in the 
basement will be supplied with fresh tempered air from the fan lo- 
cated in the basement section of the cell block on the opposite side of 
the corridor, and all of the foul air and vapor will be removed by a 
special fan located in the attic. 


Chapel. This building throughout will be heated by direct 
radiation. In addition to this there will be a fan provided for the 
introduction of fresh tempered air in the auditorium and in the as- 
sembly room in the basement. 


Interior Cell Blocks. These buildings will be heated and ven- 


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tilated by a fan system so regulated and installed as to introduce a 
proper supply of fresh tempered air into the corridors and cells. An 
exhaust fan will be provided in the attic of such capacity as to re- 
move about fifty percent of the air through the cells. The remainder 
of the fresh air introduced will escape by gravity. 


Outside Cell ‘Blocks. These buildings will be heated by direct 
radiation, the individual cell radiation to be from a radiator extend- 
ing into the cells in one corner. Direct radiation will be provided 
for heating the central corridor in these buildings. Vitiated air will 
be removed from these buildings through the water closets which will 
each be connected by a duct to an exhaust fan located in the attic. 
In these buildings the temperature of the individual cells and fresh 
air for ventilation will be controlled by the individual occupant of 
the cells opening and closing windows as desired. 


Dormitories. These buildings will be heated by direct radia- 
tion but they will also have a complete system of ventilation. Fresh 
tempered air will be supplied to dormitory rooms and toilet rooms. 
Vitiated air will be withdrawn from the toilets by a fan in the attic. 


Main Connecting Corridors. All main connecting corridors 
for the housing section of the institution will be heated by direct 
radiation; no artificial ventilation being provided for these. 


Hospital. This building will be heated by direct radiation. 
Fresh tempered air will be introduced into the wards by fans. Foul 
air will be removed from wards and toilet rooms by fans. No spe- 
cial ventilation is provided for the small individual rooms or other 
rooms in this hospital except as above noted. 


Industrial Buildings. The maintenance building, raw products 
building, finished products building, and power house where requiring 
heat will be heated by direct radiation. 

Factory buildings will be heated by direct radiation, will have 
fresh tempered air supplied by fans and foul air removed from the 
toilet rooms and such portions of the factory as may be necessary by 
fans. 


Agricultural Group. Shop, dairy, dormitory, slaughter house, 
and such portions of the agricultural buildings as require heat will 
be heated by direct radiation. Mechanical ventilation will probably 
not be required for any of these buildings except the slaughter house 


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and some portions of the dairy. Where so required provision is 
made for the removal of vitiated air by the use of fans. 


Conservatory. 'This building will be heated by direct radiation 
using coils in the customary manner. 

In general where a split system or combination direct and in- 
direct is used, the direct radiation will be expected to take of the ex- 
posure losses and the special needs of each building and the balanc- 
ing of the system with relation to heating and ventilation must be 
carefully considered and worked out. 

All radiation is expected to be controlled thermostatically so 
that the consumption of steam and temperature of the buildings will 
at all times be automatically operated. In the ventilating system 
especially liberal fans must be provided for exhausting vitiated air 
from such departments as the following, viz.: 

Laundry 

General bath room 

Kitchen and bakery 

Such factory buildings as create or cause disagreeable odors. 

The State Code will be used as the basis for calculating ventila- 
tion requirements throughout. 


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ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT 


Plant. The power plant will be run non-condensing as the ex- 
haust steam will be required in summer to operate the feed water 
heaters, domestic water heating apparatus, and the absorption sys- 
tem of refrigeration and for industrial purposes, and in the winter in 
addition to the above exhaust steam will be used for heating build- 
ings. As the amount of exhaust steam depends largely upon the 
amount of manufacturing carried on there will probably not be 
sufficient exhaust steam to care for all exhaust steam demands, and 
at most times it will be necessary to supplement the exhaust with 
live steam. Hence condensing engines would be of no value to 
this plant. 

Engines and Generators. This equipment as outlined will con- 
sist of the following: 

1—250 KW generator 
2—600 KW generators 
1—750 KW generator. 

All of the above to be three phase, sixty cycle, four hundred 
eighty (480) volt A. C., direct connected to compound engines; the 
generators to have the above capacity on eighty-five percent power 
factor. 

Four (4) exciter units each of proper size to supply the corre- 
sponding above noted generator units; each exciter unit to be 
separate and be direct connected to an automatic engine. 

The oiling of the machinery will be taken care of by automatic 
oiling system, the tanks, filters, pumps, etc., to be placed in the space 
under the generator,room between the generator foundations. 

All pumps and machinery in the power house and throughout 
the entire institution, except vacuum pumps for heating and boiler 
feed pumps, will be electrical motor driven using four hundred forty 
(440) volt, three phase, sixty cycle, A. C. motors. 

Provision is made in the generator room in the construction of 
the building for the installation of a traveling crane, and it is ex- 
pected that the crane at present in use in the Ohio Penitentiary will 
be transferred to this location. 

It is also expected that the two six hundred KW generators and 
engines at present in use in the penitentiary in Columbus can be 
transferred to this plant and serve the purpose for the life of the 


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machinery. One of the other units herein described and required for 
the electrical plant can be installed at the institution during con- 
struction and prior to such time as it will be possible to move a por- 
tion of the present penitentiary equipment. It will probably be 
well worth while to transfer the machinery and equipment herein 
described from the Ohio Penitentiary to the new location even 
though it should be used in its present location for a further period 
of five or six years before transfer is made possible. 

Switch Board. The main switch board is located at the end of 
the generator room near the office of the Chief Engineer and at such 
point as will make it convenient for extending lines direct into the 
tunnel. This will be a double-decked board, the lower panels being 
generator or exciter panels, recording instrument panels, panels for 
switches for motors in the power house, switches for ground light- 
ing, panel for remote control switches for panels above. The upper 
tier of panels which will be reached by a stairway at one end of the 
lower board as shown on the first floor plan of the power house, will 
be for distribution of power to buildings and grounds. Fach gen- 
erator panel will have a main oil switch, exciter switch, rheostat and 
exciter ammeter, an ammeter for each phase, a voltmeter, and a watt 
hour meter, and a potential plug. Exciter panels will be provided 
having exciter switches so that exciter can be used for individual 
machine or can be thrown into exciter bus bars. Instrument panels 
will be provided with such recording, indicating, and watt hour 
meters as are necessary to show the consumption of current in all 
parts throughout. The switch board will have a voltage regulator, 
ground detector, and all necessary auxiliary apparatus. 

It will probably be necessary to have a high tension system of 
distribution. Transformer panels will be provided. On _ back of 
board at suitable point switch and fuses will be provided for motor 
generator set in execution chamber. 

As hereafter noted under electrical distribution recording instru- 
ments for branch circuits throughout will be placed on switchboards 
placed in the buildings at the various locations suggested as the only 
circuits extending from the power house will be the main circuits for 
lighting, power and ground lighting. Sufficient panels will be pro- 
vided for additional distribution to sources other than the Penal and 
Farm Groups as now located in case such further extension is de- 
sired in the future. 


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The automatic transformers for ground lighting, and high ten- 
sion step-up transformers for lighting and power, in case high ten- 
sion current is used for distribution, will be placed on the back of the 
switch board in the power plant. 


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ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTION AND WORK IN 
BUILDINGS 


Special provision is made in the tunnel and duct system for 
separate compartments in which to run electric lines for distribution 
throughout the entire institution. The arrangement and location of 
the tunnel and duct system is indicated on plat Drawing No. 10. 


Main lines will extend through the tunnels to various centers of 
distribution located on tunnel plat Drawing No. 10, it beng expected 
that high tension current will be carried to these centers and proper 
transformers and properly equipped switch boards located at these 
various centers. This arrangement is made for the purpose of re- 
ducing the amount of copper required and permitting of a safer and 
more economical control of the current used. 

Arrangement must be made in installing lighting circuits in 
housing buildings to enable the guards or the administration depart- 
ment of the institution to have control of this system, and care must 
be taken in installing lights to place them at such points and in such 
manner as will prevent wires or contacts being tampered with by 
the prisoners, and circuits must be so run and controlled as to enable 
the central administration to at all times be able to operate the 
various circuits from centers of distribution in the most economical 
manner. Meters must be installed controlling the various housing 
units and other units throughout the group of buildings in such man- 
ner as to check one department against another in its consumption 
of current and thereby increase efficiency and decrease expense of 
operation. 

For electrical distribution from the switch board in the power 
plant to the various distribution centers either of two methods may be 
employed. The one finally determined upon will be the one which 
is considered most economical at the time of construction of the plant 
as the market of electrical apparatus and equipment at this time is of 
such a character as to make it practically impossible to determine that 
which might be desirable a year or two hence. The general installa- 
tion as to location of centers of distribution, etc., would be changed 
very little under either method. The method which is preferred is 
to distribute comparatively low tension current at generator voltage 
of four hundred eighty volts throughout and to use four hundred 


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forty volt motors throughout for power. This would require step- 
down transformers for light only. 

If at the time of the installation of the plant the cost of copper 
for this system is still prohibitive and in excess of the cost of the 
system described in the following it will be necessary to use trans- 
formers in the power house for both lighting and power current which 
will step up the voltage from generator voltage of four hundred 
eighty to twenty-three hundred volts, and install step down trans- 
formers for both lighting and power at the centers of distribution in 
buildings as hereinafter mentioned. 

The distribution for ground lighting and outside lighting gen- 
erally will be twenty-three hundred volt service using series lamps. 
There will probably be required about eight circuits with perhaps 
forty or fifty standards to the circuit. The front buildings of the 
Penal Group will be divided into three sections of such size as to 
balance the lighting on all three phases, and a transformer room 
with transformer switch board and equipment for distribution of 
three phase current for power and single phase current for lighting 
throughout the section will be provided for each section so located. 

The factory group including the raw materials building, main 
factory buildings and finished products building will be arranged in 
a similar manner, as will the hospital, the conservatory, maintenance 
building, agricultural group, and residence group. These will all be 
similarly arranged as separate groups, each on a separate phase so 
far as lighting is concerned, so as to properly equalize the lighting 
load on the phases. The grounds lighting will be properly connected 
to various phases in the power house to equalize the load on the phases. 

The electrical equipment throughout the buildings will be in- 
stalled in metal conduit in the customary manner to meet the require- 
ments of good, high class electrical engineering. This applies 
throughout to all work, but special provision must be made at cer- 
tain points. 

The stage in the assembly hall and auditorium will be provided 
with a complete stage switch board for controlling all auditorium 
and stage lights with the usual emergency switch in the auditorium 
for controlling the auditorium house lights independent of the con- 
trol of the same on the stage board. The stage board must be en- 
closed in a steel frame and arranged so it can be covered by a rolling 
steel shutter when not in use. 


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Switch boards will be provided in each distributing center here- 
inbefore mentioned, and switch boards and cutout boxes will be pro- 
vided at central locations in each building; these also being so ar- 
ranged as to maintain the idea of central and supervisory control by 
officers in authority in the management of the institution. Such in- 
struments will be provided at all points as to permit of accurate 
records of power and light service in each building. 

Electrical equipment will be provided in the rooms set aside for 
electrocution. This space as heretofore described is situated in the 
third floor of the utility building. This equipment will consist of 
motor generator set of proper type and capacity with complete 
switch board recording instruments, etc. The motor generator set 
will be operated on a circuit run direct from the main switch board 
in the power house separate from all other circuits or contacts. Space 
will be provided in this building where a duplicate set can be estab- 
lished if desired in the future. 


TELEPHONE, CLOCK AND SIGNAL SYSTEM 


Conduits will be provided in the wire tunnels for telephone 
cables connecting the telephone exchange in the administration 
building with telephones in all parts of the institution. A master 
clock will be provided in the telephone exchange operating secondary 
clocks throughout the entire institution by means of cables and wir- 
ing run in conduit in the pipe tunnel. The clock system will be pro- 
vided with a program attachment operating gongs for signal system 
throughout. The signal system will also be arranged so it can be 
operated in addition from any point or points as desired, so it can 
be used for fire alarm or any general alarm that may be desired. 


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WATER WORKS SYSTEM 


General Water Supply System. Based upon investigation and 
reports made by engineers to the architects that there is an amply 
supply of water at moderate depth it is proposed to obtain the water 
supply at this institution from wells. Not less than four and prob- 
ably not more than six wells will be required. These should have 
twelve inch casing and be sunk to such depth as may be necessary to 
secure ample water supply. Investigation, heretofore made shows 
that this depth will vary from sixty to one hundred feet. 

These wells will be placed near the reservoir located by plat 
Drawing No. 10, and preferably to the west of the reservoir on the 
higher ground at such point as makes them entirely free from any 
objectionable drainage from the institution. They should be ap- 
proximately six hundred feet apart. Each well will have either an 
electrically driven pump or an air lift having a capacity of two hun- 
dred gallons per minute placed in a well house directly above the 
casing. These pumps should discharge into a common line arranged 
so any or all pumps can be used for either or both sections of the 
reservoir. ‘These pumps are to be controlled at the switch board or 
at the pump itself and are not to be automatically operated. 
Electrical recording device connecting to a gauge in the Chief En- 
gineer’s office in the power plant showing the water level at each 
section of the reservoir will be provided for proper handling of pumps. 

The average daily consumption of water for the institution is 
estimated at approximately five hundred thousand (500,000) gal- 
lons. Two of the pumps will handle 576,000 gallons per twenty-four 
hours, but it is considered advisable to have six pumps in order to 
keep one or two pumps in reserve for emergency. 

The reservoir will be an open concrete reservoir approximately 
ten feet deep having a capacity of six million gallons. The walls of 
the reservoir will be of concrete and will extend about two feet above 
the grade and will be surmounted by an iron rail or heavy wire fence 
approximately five feet six inches (5’ 6”) high. The reservoir will be 
divided into two parts so one can be cleaned without interfering with 
the other or interfering with the water supply. 

Mains leading from both sections of the reservoir will be run to 
the main power house where water pumps are located, and will be 
connected into four stage centrifugal pumps which will pump cold 


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hard water from the reservoir into the upper tower tank in the rear 
of the wall surrounding the Penal Group. There will be two of these 
pumps each of which shall have a capacity for discharging six hun- 
dred gallons of water per minute. These pumps will also be arranged 
so they can be used for fire service. Space is provided in this pump 
room so that an Underwriters’ steam driven fire pump can be installed 
if so desired, but the system is designed to meet all requirements for 
fire protection without such auxiliary pump. 

Water supply can at all times be maintained in case of fire or 
unusual demand by using the above described cold water pumps and 
the soft cold water pumps hereinafter described for keeping pressure 
on the mains through automatic pressure valves controlling said 
pumps, but for average conditions pressure for both hard cold water 
and soft cold water will be secured from the head furnished by the 
tanks situated in the water tower above mentioned. 

There will be two tower tanks both supported by the same steel 
frame work. Each tank will have a capacity of one hundred thou- 
sand gallons; the bottom of the upper tank containing the hard 
water will be one hundred fifty feet above the ground. This provides 
ample pressure for all fire protection and places the lower or soft 
water tank at ample height for pressure for domestic purposes. The 
two pumps for pumping hard water will be electrically driven and 
automatically controlled to maintain a fixed level in the tank. It is 
considered that only one of these pumps will be used all the time; the 
other being kept in reserve for emergencies. The general arrange- 
ment of water tanks frame work support and enclosure for same is 
described under the head of buildings. 

Cold hard water will be used throughout for fire protection, for 
sprinkling, for flushing plumbing fixtures, for use in the conserva- 
tory, and almost entirely for use in the Agricultural Group. The hard 
water lines for distribution to the various departments will be taken 
off in the power plant from the main leading from the pump to the 
water tower and will extend throughout the grounds using mains as 
indicated on plat Drawing No. 10. In order to secure the most effi- 
cient installation the loop system recommended by the Underwriters 
has been adopted. Fire hydrants throughout the premises will be 
placed wherever practicable, or where necessary, and branches will 
be run from mains into all buildings for stand pipes and for cold hard 
water for such domestic uses as above described. 


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WATER SOFTENING EQUIPMENT 


In the water softening room in the power plant there will be 
provided two lime and soda ash gravity cold process type water 
softeners, each with a capacity of softening ten thousand gallons per 
hour from thirty-five grains hardness to six grains hardness; each 
softener to have a small storage tank as a part of the apparatus from 
which soft water can be pumped to the soft water tank in the water 
tower. 

For pumping water from the softeners into the tank there will 
be provided in the pump room of the power house two electrically 
driven four stage centrifugal pumps each having a capacity of four 
hundred gallons per minute. Each of these pumps is of sufficient 
capacity to operate the entire installation, one pump being ordinarily 
kept in reserve for emergency service. 


Cotp Sorr Water DIstTRIBUTION 

Soft water will be used for all domestic purposes throughout 
except, where hereinbefore noted to be taken care of by hard water. 
Connections for soft water supply will be arranged in the power plant 
on line leading from soft water pumps to the water tower the same 
as from the hard water supply, and lines will be run throughout the 
institution as indicated on plat Drawing No. 10. All lavatories 
throughout the institution, in the cells as well as in the other depart- 
ments, will be supplied with cold soft water. 


Hor WatEeR SUPPLY SYSTEM 

A connection from the soft cold water supply system in the 
power house will extend to two exhaust steam, brass or copper tube 
storage tank type water heaters, each having a capacity for heating 
twelve thousand gallons per hour from forty degrees to one hundred 
eighty degrees and each having a storage capacity of seventy-five 
hundred gallons. Steam supply to heaters will be arranged so that 
heaters will automatically use high pressure steam to supplement the 
exhaust whenever it becomes necessary. 

These heaters will be arranged on a steel frame work placed one 
above the other and space will be provided in the water softening 
room beside these heaters for future installation of two additional 
tanks doubling the capacity above described. Hot water flow and 
return lines run in the tunnels from these heaters will provide for the 


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circulating system of hot water supply for domestic purposes 
throughout. To assure circulation of this water there will be provided 
two centrifugal pumps; each pump will be of sufficient size to ordi- 
narily serve the entire purpose the duplicate being kept in reserve for 
emergency use. Pumps will be cross connected so either or both can 
be used for either or both hot water storage tanks. The arrangement 
of hot water supply pipes is indicated on plat Drawing No. 10. 

It is expected that hot soft water will be supplied to all fixtures 
where cold soft water is supplied. 


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SANITARY SEWER 


The sanitary sewer system will start at the ends of the front 
group of penal buildings under the front of the basement corridor 
and will continue to a point near the center of the front group where 
it will join into the main sewer extending south through the main 
grounds, passing under the factory buildings and under the rear wall. 
From this point it will extend across the grounds to the southeast 
corner of the present State’s property, thence along the Springfield 
Pike across Oak Run near the village of London, where it will con- 
nect with a sewer in the village of London leading to the sewage dis- 
posal plant in accordance with the contract entered into between the 
Board of Administration and the village of London. Man holes will 
be provided on this line in the basement under the main corridor and 
on the line passing through the grounds at such intervals as will 
amply provide for rodding and cleaning of every part of the sewer 
system. 

As above stated arrangement has been made with the village of 
London for the treatment of sewage at the new disposal plant to be 
constructed of sufficient size to care for the joint demands of both 
communities. 

The trunk line has been designed on the basis of seventy-five 
gallons per capita per day. However, the sizes of pipes within the 
buildings have been determined by the consideration that peak load 
will be caused by the use of a large number of plumbing fixtures in 
a very short period of time morning and evenings. Flushing tanks 
are placed at the ends of all trunk lines and the man holes above men- 
tioned have a maximum spacing of five hundred feet in straight run 
and uniform grade of practically thirty-four hundredths per hundred 
feet has been found possible in the main trunk lines. An inverted 
syphon is necessary at Oak Run and the pipe in this syphon should be 
of cast iron. 

The sewer pipe under all buildings will be of cast iron. The 
sewer throughout the grounds will be salt-glazed vitrified sewer pipe. 

The plan and arrangement of the sanitary sewer is shown on 
plat Drawing No. 8 and 9. 


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STORM WATER SEWER 


A separate sewer system is provided for storm water drainage 
from buildings and roadways throughout the grounds. This will be 
entirely separate from the sanitary sewer, and will discharge its flow 
into Oak Run. The general system of drainage for this purpose is 
indicated on plat Drawing No. 8. 


REFRIGERATING APPARATUS 


The general ice making and refrigerating plant will be located 
in the maintenance building. The absorption system will be install- 
ed in order to utilize the exhaust steam from the engines during the 
summer months. The system must be so arranged that high pressure 
steam can be used to supplement exhaust steam when necessary. ‘The 
plant to be installed will have a capacity of sixty tons per twenty-four 
hours and an ice tank with a capacity of fifteen tons per twenty-four 
hours. Sufficient space will be provided for a duplication of the 
equipment in the future which might be required in case the basement 
and upper floors are used for cold storage purposes in this building. 

Cold storage rooms are provided for in the basement and first 
story of the maintenance building; these rooms will be piped for re- 
frigeration. It is expected, however, that the entire basement of the 
maintenance building will be so arranged as to permit of its being 
insulated and piped and divided into cold storage rooms in the future. 

It is the expectation to concentrate all of the cold storage equip- 
ment at this one point and to make sufficient ice to cool refrigerators 
in and adjacent to the kitchen for the main mess hall. It is ex- 
pected that each day’s supplies will be issued from this building to 
the kitchen or such other portions of the institution as said supplies 
will be consumed, and it is thought better and more economical to 
operate all refrigerating machinery at the one point and cool other 
refrigerators required throughout the institution by the use of ice 
from the central plant. 


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VACUUM CLEANING APPARATUS 


Suitable vacuum cleaning apparatus will be installed throughout 
all buildings of the Penal Group, except the factory buildings and 
the conservatory. It is expected to use electrically driven stationary 
vacuum cleaning plants installed at such intervals as to make them 
most economical to operate. 


NATURAL GAS 


It is recommended that suitable natural gas tap be secured either 
from the village of London or one of the high pressure lines passing 
the farm. Natural gas should be supplied to the hospital, the 
general kitchen, the utility building, the repair shop in the agricul- 
tural section and such portions of the factory buildings as the in- 
dustries carried on there may require. 


COMPRESSED AIR 


Compressed air required for manufacturing purposes will be 
furnished by a small steam driven compressor with tanks and con- 
nections complete, or by the installation of small compressors in the 
factory buildings same to be electrically driven. 


DISTRIBUTING LINES 


The tunnel system radiating from the central power plant con- 
necting with the space under the platforms of the manufacturing 
buildings and connecting with the space under the corridors in the 
Penal Group and extending from the power house to the agricultural 
buildings, of such construction as is described under the heading of 
Buildings, is shown on plat Drawing No. 10. Provision is made in 
the construction of these tunnels for properly dividing the space to 
be occupied by the electrical lines from the space occupied by steam 
and water lines, and ample provision is made for ventilating tunnels 
and such connections to the tunnels will be provided as will enable 
their use as passageways between the buildings if so desired. 

Drainage for the tunnel system will be provided by outlets into 
the sewer at proper intervals. 


One Hundred 


ORDER OF PLANNING 


The law creating the Penitentiary Commission and providing 
for the designing and construction of a new penitentiary clearly 
separates the work of planning and construction into two divisions 
as follows: 

(a) All plans and designs for improvement of the Penitentiary 
Farm are to be furnished by the Ohio Penitentiary Commission. 

(b) All actual construction of improvements is to be carried 
on under the direction of the Ohio Board of Administration. 

In order to comply with the law as above stated it is necessary 
that the appropriations for the uses and purposes of the Penitentiary 
Commission, and for improvement work other than construction be 
made in sufficient amount to enable the complete planning of the 
proposed improvements in advance of appropriations made for the 
construction of the improvements when so planned. It will be im- 
possible for the Ohio Board of Administration to intelligently apply 
for construction appropriations properly divided and apportioned 
until plans are furnished to them by the Ohio Penitentiary Commis- 
sion, so complete and in such order and sequence as will enable the 
Ohio Board of Administration to determine in advance of construc- 
tion appropriations the actual amount of materials that it will be 
necessary to purchase and of labor it will be necessary to employ to 
construct the various units in the proper order. 

In order to properly and logically carry on the construction of 
the improvements it will be necessary to have complete drawings and 
specifications prepared for the various units in the following order: 

1. Sanitary sewer. 

. General surface drainage and storm sewer. 

. Service roadways. 

. Railroad track connection with the Big Four. 

. Steam heating and power plant, electrical plant and water 
works system. 

The above units should be planned complete with all detailed 
information clearly set forth with the expectation that the various 
sub-units comprising the same will be installed at such times and in 
such manner as the growth and development of the building scheme 
makes necessary and expedient, but at all times in installing the same 
the plan should be ready and the record and instruction clear as to 


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the manner in which it should be installed to be in harmony with the 
entire proposed improvement. By so doing all remodeling and tear- 
ing out and reconstructing will be avoided and the greatest efficiency 
will obtain in the work. 

Complete working drawings, details and specifications should 
be prepared for the buildings in the following order: 

1. A temporary frame building for dormitory, mess hall and 
kitchen to accommodate approximately two hundred fifty 
men, to be located in the center of the penal institution group 
between the power house and the mess hall. 

2. The small factory building. 

3. The stack and power house. 

4. Cell blocks A-B-C- and D, Sections 1 and 2, and the en- 
closing wall; to be followed by other cell blocks as the growth 
of the institution demands. 

5. Utility building. 

6. Maintenance building. 

7. Mess hall, kitchen and bakery. 

8. The administration building. 

9. Large factory building. 

10. Buildings for raw materials and finished products. 

11. Large chapel and assembly hall. 

12. Hospital. 

13. Small chapel. 

14. Conservatory. 

15. Dormitory. 

The buildings are mentioned in the above order for the following 
reasons: The principal industry to be carried on at this institution 
prior to the completion of the construction of the improvements con- 
templated will be the building work itself. Therefore, temporary 
housing with provision for properly feeding and caring for those 
employed in the work of construction must be the first building 
erected. : 

The preparation of large quantities of material for use in the 
buildings, such as the cutting of stone, framing of iron and steel work, 
the getting out of wood work, etc., will be from the start an important 
industry. Therefore, the small factory building is recommended 
second in the structures on the ground and first of the permanent 
buildings to be planned, as this will furnish the manufacturing build- 


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ing in which the materials above listed can be prepared for the con- 
struction work. 

The stack and power house must be planned in order to enable 
the proper installation of sufficient units of the power plant to supply 
heat, light, power and water during construction. 

The cell blocks, A, B, C, and D, including both sections 1 and 2 
of the last named block should be among the early buildings planned 
and constructed, together with the wall attaching to the same and 
surrounding the Penal Group. With these cell buildings constructed 
the institution will have a capacity of housing in individual cells 
fifteen hundred prisoners, and the construction of these cell blocks 
will require a greater length of time than the construction of any 
other building in the Penal Group, except possibly, the administra- 
tion building. 

The utility building should be planned early and should be so 
started as to finish its construction at least by the time the construc- 
tion of the cell blocks is finished. In fact it would be an advantage 
to have it earlier, as it contains the laundry, the bathing department, 
barber shop and the necessary space for the preparation, storage and 
repair of clothing. 

The maintenance building also should be completed at least by 
the time the first blocks of cells are completed, as by that time it will 
be necessary to provide an extensive cold storage plant for the proper 
care and preservation of food supplies. 

The mess hall, kitchen and bakery should be planned at the same 
time to permit of its being finished with the first group of cell houses, 
as with fifteen hundred men in the institution greater provision must 
be made for the proper preparation and service of food than could 
well be cared for in a temporary building, and if the mess hall is 
all constructed at one time, instead of in units one half of it could 
well be used for an assembly hall and the other half for a mess hall 
until such time as the assembly hall is built and the entire space pro- 
vided for mess hall is required for its originally intended purpose. 

The administration building should be planned at an early 
date but its construction need not be executed until the first group 
of cell blocks is well completed. Temporary provision can be made 
for administration quarters, and this being a large building consider- 
able time and a large amount of labor and material will be required 
for its erection. With the completion of the administration building 


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and the group of permanent buildings above mentioned, the institu- 
tion will be in perfect working order for a population of fifteen 
hundred. At this time it would be well to construct the large factory 
building and the storage buildings for raw materials and finished 
products. 

The hospital is not mentioned until among the later buildings, 
for the reason that temporary provision can be made for hospital 
service during the construction period, either in a small temporary 
frame building, or in a portion of one of the permanent buildings. 
This equipment could later be shifted to its permanent quarters with- 
out excessive cost. 

The large chapel and assembly hall and small chapel are men- 
tioned among the last buildings to be provided for, for the reason that 
they are more in the nature of luxuries, and chapel service can be 
held in one half of the mess hall, or in some portion of the unfinished 
buildings during the construction and formative period of the work. 

The order of planning the agricultural buildings is not men- 
tioned for the reason that the farm is at present equipped with a 
limited number of well arranged buildings of this character and the 
growth of the farm industry from the present nucleus will, as it ex- 
pands, naturally indicate the proper order in which the improvements 
should be made so far as this department is concerned. The location 
of the agricultural buildings now in use fortunately is such as to 
permit of the farming industry being carried on entirely independ- 
ent of the construction industry as is most desirable and necessary 
in working out this improvement. 

The preparation of the drawings, descriptions and specifications 
in complete form to enable the carrying on of the construction of the 
buildings here listed will require many months of time, even in an 
office having a large organization. It should, therefore, progress as 
rapidly as possible following the adoption of this report. 


One Hundred Four 


METHOD OF CONSTRUCTION 


N order to comply with the law providing for the planning and 
construction of the new penitentiary it is necessary that it be 
continually borne in mind that the labor of the prisoners must 

be made use of to the fullest extent possible. Therefore, while it 
may not be strictly within the province of this report to take up the 
questions of construction management and equipment it is felt that 
a few of the points to which attention has been called by other States 
constructing similar institutions should properly be set forth here. 

It must be borne in mind that prison labor is very largely un- 
skilled labor, therefore it will require more time and a greater num- 
ber of men to produce a given result by the use of such labor than 
would be required by the employment of skilled labor. 

The fact that unskilled labor will largely ‘be employed makes 
even more important the selection of a manager for the improvement 
work especially skilled and experienced in the organization and ad- 
ministration of building projects, and in order to accomplish the 
best results the employment of such skilled assistants as will be nec- 
essary at the heads of the various departments of construction should 
be left entirely to the general manager so employed in charge of the 
entire organization of the force. 

It will be necessary to maintain a well equipped office for the 
resident engineer in charge of the work, such bookkeepers and sten- 
ographers and assistants as the resident engineer may from time to 
time find necessary. 

The purpose of employing prison labor is, of course, two fold. 
First, to enable the State to secure a high class Penal Institution at 
the lowest possible expenditure of money. Second, to furnish pro- 
ductive and beneficial employment to the prisoners; but it must be 
borne in mind that in order to enable the State to benefit from this 
method of carrying on the work it must be so managed as to logically 
and rapidly push the construction forward from the time work is be- 
gun on the improvement until it is finished. This can only be done 
by establishing a competent administrative department especially for 
this work on the ground of the institution, as to attempt to direct 
the administration of this construction as a side line through any of 
the already overburdened State departments except in the most gen- 


One Hundred Five 


eral way could only result in delays, loss of money and failure to 
secure satisfactory results. 

The magnitude of the work is such as to justify the above out- 
lined method of operation and far more money will be saved by a 
competent local organization and management in the construction 
than the cost of said management and organization will amount to. 

Sufficient appropriation should be made at the start to enable 
the purchase and installation of proper equipment for carrying on 
the work. This should consist of: 

Steam shovels. 

Trench diggers. 

High power trucks for transportation. 

Several teams of horses or mules with suitable wagons. 

Wheel and hand scrapers. 

A saw mill for cutting stone and marble equipped with a four 
gang saw, one or two diamond saws and two rubbing beds. 

Proper derricks for handling stone and marble in large blocks. 

A well equipped planing mill for getting out and finishing build- 
ing woodwork. 

A well equipped blacksmith shop and a shop equipped for fram- 
ing and cutting steel in the ordinary building shapes and sizes. 

The necessary equipment for cutting and bending reinforcing 
metal. 

The necessary equipment for excavating, crushing, grading and 
cleaning sand and gravel. 

Light gauge construction railroad rails and dump cars for ex- 
cavating and grading work. 

Concrete mixers and concrete hoists, spouting equipment and 
brick hoists. 

Tile and brick making machinery and equipment. 

The above line of equipment is mentioned to give some idea of 
that which will be necessary to properly start operations on the scale 
that should be conducted. 

Such equipment should be charged to the building account and 
gradually charged off against each building constructed on a prede- 
termined percentage basis until at the completion of the institution 
such equipment will have been completely charged off and the entire 
cost merged into the building cost. 


One Hundred Siz 


Raw materials are as a rule cheap commodities, labor is by far 
the greater proportion of all building construction cost and for that 
reason it is recommended that stone and marble working mills, wood- 
working mills, gravel and sand working and grading equipment be 
installed in a proper manner at the start to get the greatest good out 
of the labor furnished by the State, and to the end that this work may 
be so equipped and managed as to make of it a valuable training 
school for the prisoners and profitable to the State from the time the 
construction work is started on through until its completion, and at 
that time to have it so equipped with training schools and factories 
as to continue this beneficial work with such profit to the State as to 

make of the Ohio Penitentiary an asset rather than a liability. 


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FOR THB STATE OF OHIO 


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ADMINISTRATION 
BUILDING 


NEW PENITENTIARY 
FOR THE STATE OF OHIO 


‘TO BE CONSTRUCTED IN 
MADISON COUNTY 


Drawing Thirteen 


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LONGITUDINAL SECTION 


HEATING EQUITMENT 


BOA Sob DENTS Pla 


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ADMINISTRATION BUILDING 


NEW PENITENTIARY 
FOR THE STATE OF OHIO 


TO BE CONSTRUCTED IN 
MADISON COUNTY 


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NEW PENITENTIARY 
FOR THE STATE OF OHIO 
TO 86 CONSTEUCTED IN 
MADISON COUNTY 


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MAIN FLOOR. PLAN 


Drawing Seventeen 


BALCONY PLAN 


Soare ere 


NEW PENITENTIARY 


Cc E N T RAL G RO U P FOR THE STATE OF OHIO 


TO BE CONSTRUCTED iN 
MADISON COUNTY 


Drawing Eighteen 


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BOAND f 


BARBER yunor 


FOR. PRIYONERSY 


TAILON nor 
& MENDING ROOM 


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FIR/T FLOOR, PLAN 


BASEMENT PLAN 
Sere Karo 


NEW PENITENTIARY 
FOR THE STATE OF OHIO” 


UTILITY BUILDING ” Scie 


Drawing Twenty-one 


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WEST ELE VAAL T POM 


SOUTH ELEVATION SECTIONS NORIN [ELEVATION 


EA/T ELEVATION 


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NEW PENITENTIARY ~ 


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MADISON COUNTY 


Drawing Twenty-two 


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SECTION D 


BALCONY. PLAN 


NORTH ftLEVATION 


FIRST FLOOR_ PLAN 


EAYT ELEVATION 


NEW PENITENTIARY 
FOR THE STATE OF OHIO 


TO BE CONSTRUCTED IN 
MADISON COUNTY 


WEST ELEVATION 


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Drawing Twenty-three 


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END ELEVATION END ELEVATION AT CORRIDOR_ TYPICAL SECTION NORIH ELEVATION OF CORNIDOR_ 


FIRST FLOOR. PLAN 


Bevo) Et EXN te Fee AN NEW PENITENTIARY 
Serre petro” FOR THE STATE OF OHIO 


INTERIOR CELL HOUSE 


TO BE CONSTRUCTED In 
MADISON COUNTY 


Drawing Twenty-four 


Pol ce pa j feel Wear FecER mess aye 
(pdipq aE Koo} oo ho | allad| | a pa ba} 


et leat 


BASEMENT NEW PENITENTIARY | 
Fania aioe FOR THE STATE OF OHIO 


EXTERIOR CELL HOUSE 


OUT/IDE ELEVATION 


N/IDE ELEVATION 


Ante NG 
ROJOM 
| 
LIVING SLEEPING 
2 - ee -—. 
RQOM ROOM 


SECOND FLOOR_ PLAN 


TYPICAL POR_THIRD FLOOR 


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FIRST seas PLAN DORMITORY 
BUILDING 


NEW PENITENTIARY 
FOR THE STATE OF OHIO 


TO BE CONSTRUCTED IN 
MADISON COUNTY 


BASEMENT PLAN (pe S| ae 


Seare Leaseo® ee 


Drawing Twenty-six 


VENTIL 


DINING! 
2 


DINING 


ROOK KITCHEN 


BASEMENT PLAN 
Soare p= 


HOS PITAL 


NEW PENITENTIARY 
FOR THE STATE OF OHIO 


TO BE CONSTRUCTED IN t 
MADISON COUNTY 


PA OAR rus R cocUey RICHARD MCAATY 9 
AF SGNERD A RENUND Ne Ee 


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CONVALESCENT 


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FIRST FLOOR. PLAN 
Sone pero 


HOS PITAL 


NEW PENITENTIARY 
FOR THE STATE OF OHIO 


TO BB CONSTRUCTED IN 
MADISON COUNTY 


Drawing Twenty-eight 


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OPEN AIR. WARD 
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SECOND FLOOR. PLAN 
SCALE RAO 


HOS PITAL 


NEW PENITENTIARY 
FOR THE STATE OF OHIO 


TO BB CONSTRUCTED IN 
MADISON COUNTY 
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Drawing Twenty-nine 


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222 eS eee aes 


CAYT ELEVATION 


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SOUTH ELEVATION 


WE/T ELEVATION 
Sere yet-o” 
NEW PENITENTIARY 
FOR THE STATE OF OHIO 
TO BE CONSTRUCTED IN 


HOS PITAL | seit 


Drawing Thirty 


me 


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mere ENTE 


Resee sepa onenweREE Ae 


ELEVATIONS 


CALE to 


CONSERVATORY 


NEW PENITENTIARY 
POR THE STATE OF OHIO {| 


Drawing Thirty-one 


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i 


ELEVATION 


presen s 


WATER_ SOFTENING 


GENERATOR ROOM ROOM 


BALE MENT PLAN 


Seare Yao 


NEW PENITENTIARY 


POWER HOUSE ron THE STATE oF oM10 


MADISON COUNTY 


COMMISSION : ARCHITECTS 
) A WOMARD HAM R COOLEY RICHARDS CARTY @ BUFORD 


Drawing Thirty-two 


ELEVATION PoE ASN 


PUMP HOUSE 


ROOF .PLAN 


VERTICAL YSECTION 


Soace peto” 


WATER TOWER 


SECTION “K_ 


POWER HOUSE 


NBW PENITENPIARY 
FOR THE STATE OF OHIO 


TO BE CONSTRUCTED IN 
MADISON COUNTY 


Drawing Thirty-three 


Tne Moon 


1 
| 


HL Zeconp room, 


NORTH CLEVATION EA/T ELEVATION 


Seace Letro 


POWER HOUSE 


NEW PENITENTIARY 
FOR THE STATE OF OHIO 


TO BE CONSTRUCTED IN 
MADISON COUNTY 

(COMMISSION | ARCMITECTS 

‘A UOMRD esuus a couse «= CHARS. AUCARTY © BORD 

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Drawing Thirty-four 


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Soe aauues 


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THESE SEURST SETS 


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be eeameres 


Se 


WE/T ELEVATION 


SOUTH ELEVATION 


Feae perro 


POWER HOUSE 


NEW PENITENTIARY 
FOR THE STATE OF OHI 


TO BE CONSTRUCTED IN 
MADISON COUNTY 


; 


Drawing Thirty-five 


Brie! ce 


FLOOR 


PLAN THIRD & FOURTH 


PEI er ah Leunby 


MAINTENANCE BUILDING at 
| 


NEW PENITENTIARY 
FOR THE STATE OF OHIO 
TO BE CONSTRUCTED IN 
MADISON COUNTY 


AROMITECTS: 


crcury OLDE MCARTY « ALLIED 


Drawing Thirty-six 


ELEVATION NORTH ELEVATLON 


WEST ELEVATION SOUTH ELEVATION 


CALE Bee 


MAINTENANCE BUILDING 


FOR THE STATE OF OHIO 


TO, BE CONSTRUCTED IN 
4 MADISON COUNTY 


LAST ELEVATION 


FS 


_ BSN 


NORTH ELEVATION 


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LOADING = PLATFORM 

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LARGE FACTORY BUILDING 


NEW PENITENTIARY 


FOR THE STATE OF OHIO 
TO BE CONSTRUCTED IN 
MADISON COUNTY 
Hye 
JA LEORARD HARADA COLE — NOJAADS. SACARTY.« BULEORD 
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Drawing Thirty-eight 


WE/T ELEVATION 


DLACKSMITH = HOP 


FLOOR. PLAN 
Serre fyateo” 


NEW PENITENTIARY 


SMALL FACTORY BUILDING FOR THE STATE OF OHIO 


TO BE CONSTRUCTED IN 
MADISON COUNTY 


Drawing Thirty-nine 


| = Se wee 


EA/T ELEVATION 


ate ~ | 
PLATFORM 


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joe aene (>. a hom chee er a a ee 
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2000" 
FLOOR_ PLAN 


Seace gel 


BUILDING FOR RAW MATERIALS 


NEW PENITENTIARY 
FOR THE STATE OF OHIO 
To BE 


Drawing Forty 


SSS a SS SS SSS 


EAST ELEVATION 7 


o 

i 

x 
“ ™ ™ » ” . 
” x = ™ ” ” . 
™ = " " ® = 


FLOOR_ PLAN 
Soave goto 


NEW PENITEN 


BUILDING FOR FINISHED PRODUCTS ae 


EA/T ELEVATION 


~“ECTION 


Feasts ies — 


YOUTH ELEVATION — 


SCALE fe I-o 


FOUNDATION 


(@) 


Ny 
N 


FRONT ELEVATI 


OUARD i 
ROOM 


YECOND FLOOR_ PLAN FLOOR_ PLAN 


GATES AND WALLS 


SECOND FLOOR_ PLAN 


=i 


NOT 
ACAVATCD 


Fg ee 


NEW PENITENTIARY 
FOR THB STATE OF OHIO 


TO BE CONSTRUCTED IN 
MADISON COUNTY 


AROMETOCT® 


J AucraaD — Mannsa cour | WOMAROR MCARTY Ss 8D 
Atean@D ¥ A GuNUMD ome 


Drawing Forty-two 


GROUND FLOOR_ PLAN 


DA Ry 


Foace Ree 


BARN 


KU 
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FOR THE STATE OF O 


TO BE CONSTRUCTED IN” 
MADISON COUNTY ¥ 


- 


END ELEVATION HAY LOFT PLAN 


SIDE ELEVATION GROUND FLOOR_ PLAN 


ELEVATION 


eave eho 


NEW PENITENTIARY 
5 ie 2 i. FOR THE STATE OF OHIO 
SOUTH ELEVATIO? TO BE CONSTRUCTED IN 


IR ¥ BARN 


Drawing Forty-five 


CHAMBER 


CHAMBERS 


SECOND FLOOR. PLAN ATTIC PLAN 


HEATER _ROOM 


wor 
EXCAVATED 


NOT EXCAVATED 


i 4 . rontico 


MLE N T PLAN FIR/T FLOOR_ PLAN 


SEALE, Raton 


WARDENS RESIDENCE ron THE STATE OF OM10 


TO BE CONSTRUCTED IN 
MADISON COUNTY 


LAUONARO — HARAIS R COOLEY MOHAKOS CARTY « SAORD 


An poaeD 


Drawing Forty-six 


“IDE ELEVATION REAR_ ELEVATION 


SIDE ELEVATION FRONT ELEVATION 


Serre pare 


i NEW PENITENTIARY 
WARDENS RESIDENCE FOR THE STATE OF OHIO 
TO BE CONSTRUCTED iN 
MADISON COUNTY 


Drawing Forty-seven 


— 44-0"- 


FIR/T FLOOR_ PLAN 


HEATER RQOM 


BASEMENT PLAN 


DEPUTY 


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lt 1 (om | 


SIDE 


SIDE 


ELEVATION 


FRONT ELEVATION 


Soa 1-0" 
Seace Lasso! 


REAR — ELEVATION 


NEW PENITENTIARY 
FOR THE STATE OF OHIO 


TO BE CONSTRUCTED IN 
MADISON COUNTY 


WARDENS RESIDENCE 


Drawing Forty-eight 


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